“You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“It is your strength and determination that have infuriated me. That strength and resilience has also made me fall in love with you.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“The heat of the summer transformed the green grass into long brown straw, only the weeds were green. Claire didn't mind, the weeds had pretty flowers. Unlike Tony's flowers, which had been sentenced to his yard, gardens, or clay pots, these flowers grew free wherever they wanted. Furthermore, weeds were survivors. When all else died, the weeds remained. Yes, Claire liked weeds.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“It is not the circumstances that make a person a success. It is how that person responds to those circumstances”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Childhood was the past. It couldn't be changed, only remembered.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“She put her arms around his waist and looked up at his face. “I did? What did I take?”
He bent down to kiss her. She stood to meet
him halfway. His lips softly touched her lips and her neck as his hands became tangled in her hair.
“I believe it was my heart.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. —Bill Crosby”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Actions have consequences, I have told you that. Why is that difficult for you to understand?”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“This was wrong. Tony didn’t want to have feelings. The sex was great. It was okay to want her, dominate her, and control her. It was not okay to want to be with her, please her, and love her. Yet every one of his senses desired Claire.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“I want you to make me a promise. A promise, that you will do your best to follow my rules. That you will do your best – to never give me cause to hurt you again.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
-Sir Winston Churchill”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Claire believed she was teetering literally on the edge of sanity. A strong wind was all it would take to blow her one way or the other. Iowa had its share of storms, strong winds and tornadoes, they were all unpredictable. It made an ironic parallel for her life.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“He recognized the difference in her touch.
Looking down into her green eyes, he said, “I need to keep working.”
“No, Claire, I need to keep working to be a man you are proud to be married to.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Life is not what it’s supposed to be. It’s what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. —Virginia Satir”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“There is something perverse about more then enough. When we have more, it is never enough. It is always somewhere out there, just out of reach. The more we acquire, the more elusive enough becomes.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“God help me, I do care about you.” Gently hugging her against his chest, he tenderly moved her hair away from her angelic face. Seeing her sleep, peaceful and trusting, his thoughts of waking
her for his desires were quickly replaced.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Claire knew she was in control of her actions, she could choose to fight or complain. Her plan was for self-preservation until she was free. This had been a good old-fashioned thunderstorm, loud and boisterous but no real damage.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their life. —William James”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Tomorrow is a mystery. Yesterday is history. Live today, it’s a gift, that’s why they call it “present.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. —Bill Cosby”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“Anyone can give up. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength. —Unknown”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don’t let anyone or anything get in your way.”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. —Cary Grant”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from Consequences
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“And all at once the heavy night
Fell from my eyes and I could see, --
A drenched and dripping apple-tree,
A last long line of silver rain,
A sky grown clear and blue again.
And as I looked a quickening gust
Of wind blew up to me and thrust
Into my face a miracle
Of orchard-breath, and with the smell, --
I know not how such things can be! --
I breathed my soul back into me.
Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I
And hailed the earth with such a cry
As is not heard save from a man
Who has been dead, and lives again.
About the trees my arms I wound;
Like one gone mad I hugged the ground;
I raised my quivering arms on high;
I laughed and laughed into the sky”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, quote from Collected Poems
“The vicar's organized a snow-shoveling party."
"But why?" I asked.
It didn't make sense. If all the roads were closed, what use was it clearing a way to the front door?
"Because," said Aunt Felicity's voice behind me, "it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a hazard to society. If unpleasantness is to be avoided, they must be made to go outdoors and work off their animal spirits.”
― Alan Bradley, quote from I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
“Governments might come and go, wars will reshape the Ununited Kingdoms many times. But companies will stay, and flourish. Show me any major even on this planet and I will show you the economic reason behind it. Commerce is all powerful, Miss Strange. Commerce rules our lives.”
― Jasper Fforde, quote from The Last Dragonslayer
“– Понимаете, Кикудзисан, человек не может быть благоразумным и мудрым, если в нем слишком сильно мужское или женское начало.
– Да? Значит, мудрость среднего пола?
– Иронизируете? Ну, ну… Однако, когда превращаешься в существо среднего пола, начинаешь насквозь видеть и мужчин и женщин.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, quote from Thousand Cranes
“Man is an unoriginal animal. Unoriginal within the law in his daily respectable life, equally unoriginal outside the law. If a man commits a crime, any other crime he commits will resemble it closely.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Murder on the Links
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