"I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband, I thought, was going to leave me. I was cut off from this mentor and someone I cared for very much, David Petraeus, who also did nothing to stand up for me and in fact, empowered his surrogates to throw me under the bus, and that was devastating."

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Source : Source: www.vanityfair.com

Paula Broadwell

#Husband Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Loss Quotes

“As with everything in nature, if your life isnâ€™t supported by a grounded source of energy, it will wither and lose its vitality.”
“So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.”
“The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.”
“The fact that he gave her was to him a proof, and ought to be one for her as well that she belonged to him: one can only give what belongs to you.”
“I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!”
“Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (2002). “Infelicia and Other Writings”, p.237, Broadview Press
“We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!”

Source : "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.
“Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2012). “Poems of Richard Wilbur”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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