Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable. Whereas in its absence, as in His, there is no hope.
Virgilia PetersonI can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.
Virgilia PetersonWere marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock.
Virgilia Peterson