--Benjamin Disraeli; qtd. in Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert
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"'Did I tell you that my father is dead?' Mai asked as she was showing me around.
'I'm sorry to hear that,' I said. 'When did it happen?'
'Four years ago.'
'How did he die, Mai?'
'He died,' she said cooly, and that settled it. Her father had died of death. The way people used to die, I suppose before we knew very much about how or why."
--Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage; Elizabeth Gilbert
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--www.postsecret.com
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"Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting."
--Psalm 139: 23-24
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"Let me not the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
--William Shakespeare; "Sonnet 116"
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
--William Shakespeare; "Sonnet 116"
