What worked yesterday doesn't always work today.
There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.
The thing that you don't understand about yourself, Vivian, is that you're not an interesting person. You are pretty, yes - but that's only because you are young. The prettiness will soon fade...What...
The Balinese don't wait and see how things go. That would be terrifying. They organize how things go, in order to keep things from falling apart.
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I...
Don’t rush through the experiences and circumstances that have the most capacity to transform you.
Dessutom kunde jag inte glömma vad min syster en gång hade sagt till mig medan hon ammade: ''Att skaffa barn är som att skaffa sig en tatuering i ansiktet. Man måste vara bergsäker på att det är så ma...
We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
Ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is a sort of magical safety harness that guides us from one...
Tiramisu for desert.
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under my jurisdiction. There are certain lottery tickets I can buy, thereby increasing my odds of finding contentment. I...
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
O trabalho quer ser feito, e quer ser feito através de você.
No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God’s eyes. Beatrix continued, nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you tha...
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.
Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.
There's a power struggle going on across Europe these days. A few cities are competing against each other to see who shall emerge as the great 21st century European metropolis. Will it be London? Pari...
She did not need a library; she was a library.