What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
Irene NemirovskyLove is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings. There are two opposing forces, who fight each other until one of them wins, and you and I, my poor old Alain, have been knocked out too easily.
Irene Nemirovsky