Was it possible to love a man who made you feel ridiculous? Of course [.....], love was complicated, that was all. Or was love simple, and marriage was complicated? In seventeen years of marriage David had often left her feeling frustrated, and furio...
Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to come away with the most important detail of all. She could never identify the murderer; she could barely desc...
Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was real or imagined? What mattered was that the detail seemed real, and that it was absolutely the best detail for the circumstance. That wasn...
She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defin...
I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
When we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process. When my husband passed away, I discover...
The black widow, who had dispatched a lover or two, was sought out for her wisdom. The young spider asked her, "Did you keep his harmful secret under the threat of danger, or did you spin a web so confusing that he didn't know if you were friend or f...
Officer Keogh: Hey, aren't you Tommy's widow? Tiffany: Yes, I'm Tommy's crazy whore widow. Minus the whore thing, for the most part. Officer Keogh: You want to get a drink sometime? [Tiffany turns around and walks away in disgust] Pat: You shouldn't ...
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
Widow. The word consumes itself.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
715I aspire to be the widow my husband would be proud of....still.
I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
Widowed were not those alive, but those who were dead.
As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.
There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.
Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch.
