Recipes for a Perfect Marriage Quotes

“Seorang ibu akan selalu khawatir memikirkan anaknya, setiap hari selama hidupnya.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“Hidup ini kadang keras,tetapi kita membuatnya jadi lebih keras lagi melalui cara pandang kita.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“If you take goodwill for granted and get sloppy, you might get away with it once or twice, but you won't get away with it for ever. You should always treat the things that treat you good with respect, because otherwise you will suffer for it. More important than that is the fact that it's just the right thing to do.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“..aku sangat diberkati karena bisa menikmati segala cara sederhana yang dia tunjukkan untuk mencintaiku.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“When you are young, feelings are your truth. Love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“You can't make another person happy: they have to make themselves happy.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“Perhaps intimacy is not just loving everything about him, but knowing everything about him—and staying anyway.”
― Kate Kerrigan, The Perfect Marriage: A moving novel of love and marriage

“I thought that you could not make a commitment until you were truly in love. What I know now is that you cannot love truly until you have made a commitment.”
― Kate Kerrigan, The Perfect Marriage: A moving novel of love and marriage

“Sometimes, when you are really attached to an ideal, it is just not possible to compromise.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“If I had to describe myself I would have reluctantly used the label ‘new-age liberal’, although of course by our very nature we liberals object to putting people in boxes. (Except for ‘fascists’ and ‘racists’ and ‘conservatives’ and ‘religious right-wingers’ and, in fact, everyone who isn’t as ‘open-minded’ and ‘inclusive’ as us.)”
― Kate Kerrigan, The Perfect Marriage: A moving novel of love and marriage

“Dan is not the right guy or the wrong guy. He is just my guy. My husband. The one I chose on the day I chose him, and right now, I plan to go on choosing him for the rest of my life.”
― Kate Kerrigan, The Perfect Marriage: A moving novel of love and marriage

“Questions are the sign of an active, intelligent mind, a filter you rinse your ideas through before you make a decision. But sometimes the filter gets clogged and then it becomes a barrier to the truth.”
― Kate Kerrigan, The Perfect Marriage: A moving novel of love and marriage

“And then I got it. Dan didn’t need me to bake cakes, or entertain his uncle, or dress up, or field his mother’s expectations, or make his sisters feel important, or chit-chat nicely to his relations. He just needed me to be there. Because when I was with him, it made it easier for him to be with his family. To be able to point across a room and say, “She’s with me,” to his Uncle Patrick, his mother, his cousins, but most important, to himself.”
― Kate Kerrigan, The Perfect Marriage: A moving novel of love and marriage

“Part of me wanted to find out the reason why he felt he needed me to be there so badly, then rationalize it away, so he could go without me. Isn’t that what you are supposed to do? Communicate, talk about your problems, then reach an agreement about dealing with them. Except I knew that would have just been the scenic route to getting my own way.”
― Kate Kerrigan, The Perfect Marriage: A moving novel of love and marriage

“When you are young, feelings are your truth; love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them, how you grow with them.”
― Kate Kerrigan, The Perfect Marriage: A moving novel of love and marriage

“A mother draws a map for her child and places herself at the center of it. Her death wipes that map clean. She leaves you knowing you must redraw it to survive and yet not knowing where to start.”
― Kate Kerrigan, The Perfect Marriage: A moving novel of love and marriage

“Trust is nothing when you have it. It's bread and milk. Basic. There's no glamour, no emotion, no drama - you just trust and that's it. Trusting someone is boring. It's a non-event. But take it away - try living without trust and suddenly your relationship is plunged into a living hellhole.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“In life loyalty is something that you earn and Doreen had more than earned my loyalty over the years. But marriage is a rogue state with its own rules, and one of them is pledging your loyalty to somebody before you can be fully sure that they deserve it, so you stand their ground. You mess with him? You mess with me. That's the new rule. A husband is instant family. He gets the loyalty of a blood tie without doing any of the work.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“Sometimes, you can hurt another person by being true to yourself, but in the longterm you are doing both of you a favour. You can also hurt them by just being a selfish bitch and there is no excuse for that. Sometimes it is quite difficult to tell the two situations apart.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“Reality is just an interpretation. Some people believe only God really knows what's going on: we mortals just make up our own versions of it.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“Everyone is capable of hate, of wanting to hurt, even kill another person. But when those hatreds manifest themselves out of the mind and into real life, a line is crossed. The line between human and animal.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“Perhaps it is our dreams that keep us young. Older women who cling on to youth may look ghoulish, but perhaps they are happier than those of us who grow old and crochety before our time.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“Life can be hard, but then we make it even harder by the way we look at it.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“When you are around something every day you stop seeing it.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

“There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.”
― Kate Kerrigan, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage