"how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride."

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Source : Elinor Glyn (1907). “Three Weeks”

Elinor Glyn

#Pride Quotes #Lightning Quotes #Vow Quotes

“The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours.”
“live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.”
“Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.”
“They are having a panel look into the intelligence failures in Iraq. It is a seven-person panel and it will include Senator John McCain, but the findings from this panel will not be issued until after the election. President Bush says the commission can go off and report back in a year, you know, the same way it works in the Texas National Guard.”
“There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.”
“To grow yourself, you must know yourself.”
“In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.”
“You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.”

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