Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney

Marriage is made of a million beautiful and ugly moments stitched together into a shared tapestry of memories, all of which are viewed and remembered slightly differently, like two people staring at the same painting from opposite ends of a room.

The only thing I don’t like about being alone is the amount of time it forces me to spend with myself.

Some people think hiding their grief will make it go away, but in my experience it only makes it hurt more. Grief is only ever yours; it’s not something you can share,

Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it realize.

“Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person.

“People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one, wanting more, needing more, blind to the fact that they already had it all. I think sometimes it’s only when something gets taken from a person that they appreciate what they had.

don’t. I keep my thoughts to myself because silence cannot be misquoted.

You can only rearrange the furniture of your life a number of times before things look the same as they did.

Wives think their husbands will change but they don’t. Husbands think their wives won’t change but they do.