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Whenever someone asks the secret to making a marriage last, the answer is never, He’s the only one who knows where the ironing board is kept.
It’s not the parenting that’s so exhausting as much as the performance of the same script day in and day out.
Divorce: an American pastime as traditional and commonplace and boring as baseball.
But when one gets married, divorce is nearly as inevitable as death is when one is born.
Parenting is full of your children doing things you never imagine you need to warn them off of—like putting raisins up their noses or trying to open a car door while you’re driving seventy-five miles per hour down a highway—but
There’s nothing worse than the person you’ve been married to for half your life holding up a mirror to your worst characteristics and hating what you see.
“One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too.”
just thought I would do something that mattered. Something important. Do you know what I mean? But it feels like nothing I do matters.”
How well can you really know anybody? Even the person you’ve lived with—slept beside each night—for nearly half your life.
“Not everyone does want to be rich. Some of us just want to leave the earth a little better than we found it.”
Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.
“One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too. When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too.”
