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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.”
― Getting Married
― Getting Married

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

“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.”
― The Unabridged Journals of 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.”
― Beautiful Ruins
― Beautiful Ruins

“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.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars

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