To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
To pretend to be calm is to be calm, in a way.
I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.