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“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married

“I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight out my soul-battles and grow up with courage and a philosophical ease. I love his good smell and his body that fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that. What is only pieces, doled out here and there to this boy and that boy, that made me like pieces of them, is all jammed together in my husband. So I don't want to look around any more: I don't need to look around for anything.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“But if you knew that, why on earth did you marry her?" Rosemary asked.

"Why?" Rhett's mouth twisted in a smile.
"Because she was so full of fire and so recklessly, stubbornly brave.Because she was such a child beneath all her pretenses.Because she was unlike any woman I had ever known. She fascinated
me,infuriated me, drove me mad. I loved her as consumingly as she loved him. From the day I first laid eyes on her. It was a kind of disease."
There was a weight of sorrow in his voice. He bowed his head into his two hands and laughed shakily. His voice was muffled and blurred by his fingers. "What a grotesque practical joke life is. Now Ashley Wilkes is a free man and would marry Scarlett on a moment's notice, and I want to be rid of her. Naturally that makes her determined to have me. She wants only what she cannot have."
Rhett raised his head. "I'm afraid," he said quietly, "afraid that it will all begin again. I know that she's heartless and completely selfish, that she's like a child who cries for a toy and then breaks it once she has it. But there are moments when she tilts her head at a certain angle, or she smiles that gleeful smile, or she suddenly looks lost-and I come close to forgetting what I know.”
― Alexandra Ripley, Scarlett

“Stones don't have to be whole to be lovely," he says. "Even cracked ones can be polished and set. Small diamonds, if they are clear and well cut, can be more valuable than big ones with impurities. Listen," he says. Sometimes the brightest stars shine brightest, no?”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“Don't forget,' he says, and Abu Sayeed looks up while he translates, holding the words back a little, 'stories ease the pain of living, not dying. People always think dying is going to hurt. But it does not. It's living that hurts us.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“But safety is not about never having bad things happen to you. It's about knowing that the bad things can't separate us from each other.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“God smiles through the cracks in broken things.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“Like most people, the name history gave them isn't what they call themselves.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“My whole life, Mama and Baba celebrated two religions' worth of holidays—Christmas, Eid al-Fitr, Easter. It used to make me wonder whether the most important things we see in God are really in each other.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“People think that stories can be walled off, kept outside and separate. They can’t. Stories are inside you”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“Wealth is no substitute for belonging”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“She had thought the open sea would be flat, like a mirror or a coin. But it had colors and shapes, turning green or black under approaching storm. Sometimes it was red and purple and silver and white gold. It had sharp hedges. It had its tempers, its blue spells, its fits of laughter”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“I know God heard them both the same at the end, that he loved them both equally even though their prayers were different.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

“I ask, 'Do you think there's a place in the world where nobody has ever put their feet?'

'I think there are more of them than the other way around,' Mama says.”
― Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars