Widowers Quotes

“I gave the best and all my life to a girdled tree. It was live oak, and was good for any purpose, except for blossom and fruit, and I am not willing for Belle to be content with anything less than the whole of a man's heart.

[Varina Davis, Letter to a friend, advising against his daughter Belle marrying a widower]”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

“In frustration she sometimes asked him what he would do if she died first, to which he smugly replied, "You won't," as if it were a joke instead of her worst fear.”
― Stewart O'Nan, Evensong

“She's great company; she plays a mean hand of gin; and I like holding her hand almost as much as yours. What more do I need?”
― Libby Fischer Hellmann, A Picture of Guilt