A Good Marriage -

A good marriage is not a happy ending. It is a happy continuing . It is the slow, patient art of turning two solitudes into a single, habitable room.

The world mistakes passion for heat. But passion is a fever; it breaks. A good marriage is a constitution. It is the agreement that when one of you forgets who they are—lost in grief, in anxiety, in the cruel trick of aging—the other will remember. They will hold the memory of you like a library holds a rare book. A Good Marriage

A good marriage is not the firework. It is the long, low-burning ember that warms the house on a winter night when the power has gone out. A good marriage is not a happy ending