The Orange Herd Quotes

“A son goes off to live with his wife, and a daughter goes off to live with her husband. All your children finally leave you, and then you're all alone again, and no matter whether he's good or bad, you're left with nobody else but your husband, because he's yours, he belongs to you alone, and no matter whether you lose him when you're forty or when you're eighty, it's still your greatest loss. His children lose their father, his daughter-in-law loses her father-in-law, his grandchildren lose their grandfather, but you lose yourself, because nobody needs one ox of a team of oxen. Because you and he were pulling the same yoke all your lives. And two oxen that have always been pulling together become used to each other. They understand each other, and they try to help each other.”
― Hrant Matevosyan, The Orange Herd