98 quotes found
“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”
“Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.”
“It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.”
“There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.”
“Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit.”
“Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.”
“A month ago, Gavin had given his employer four weeks' notice. "I'll get a job around here," he'd told her. "Something low-stress, part-time, maybe. We're not paying rent, and Dad's left us plenty. ...”
“If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing divorce based upon other, more ambiguous grounds, as w...”
“Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she missed her children, her main response to living apart from her husband w...”
“Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her.”
“When her husband recovered, it was to shout abusively at her. Later, when she reflected on it throughout the tedious courtroom proceedings, she realized this was the moment she had irrevocably dete...”
“As a hedge against possible failure to prove adultery, this alleged that for a period of time from 1901 and continuing thereafter he [had] kept up and continued an undue, improper, indecorous and l...”
“It was a dark story.”
“To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to "serve him". Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to "give" him a c...”
“If you won 600 million dollars in the lottery, would you go out the next day and break into cars to steal the change from the cup holders? Thats what sleeping around is like when youve already foun...”
“When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.”
“Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look, you can observe such behavior all around you. The beautiful bird chirp...”
“Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the primitive sexual cravings of the genitals. So, from an evolutionary standpoint, it all leads to copul...”
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers an...”
“Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.”
