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Michelle Richmond QUOTES

Michelle Richmond QUOTES

21 " Most married couples report being happiest during their third year of marriage. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

22 " I expected marriage to be a door that we went through. Like a new house, you step into it, expecting it to be an unchanging space to inhabit. But, of course, I was wrong. Marriage is a living, changing thing that you must tend to both alone and together It grows in all sorts of ways, both ordinary and unexpected. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

23 " The guilty always find a way of rationalizing their behavior, making it sound as though they’ve done you a favor. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

24 " when a woman is content in her marriage, her husband is much happier; a man’s level of satisfaction within the marriage, however, appears to have no bearing on his wife’s happiness. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

25 " Whenever I feel old—which seems to be happening more and more often these days—Alice tells me to imagine taking a picture of myself, then to imagine myself twenty years in the future looking at that picture, thinking how young I looked, hoping that I had enjoyed or at least recognized my youth. That usually does the trick "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

26 " I already have a son

One is enough?

There was a time when I dreamt of having three or four but I rather failed one the fatherhood front didn't I? Some errors don't bear repeating. "

― Michelle Richmond , No One You Know

27 " Technical speaking one is a beautiful number. One is its own factorial, its own square, its own cube. It is neither a prime number nor a composite number. It is the first two numbers of the Fibonacci sequence. It is the empty product. Any number raised to the zero power is one. It might be argued that one is the most independent number known to man. It can do things no other number is capable of. "

― Michelle Richmond , No One You Know

28 " I guess I'm just stuck on the idea that there's this monumental machine, and we're all part of it. Most of the time, we don't even stop to think about how it works. We just go about our business, doing our part, trusting that everyone else will do their part, and the machine will keep functioning. But all it takes is for someone to come along who isn't thinking straight, some who's not paying attention, or worse, hell-bent on self-destruction and everything turns to shit. "

― Michelle Richmond , Golden State

29 " Strive to be all good, but know that you are not,” I said. “Try to enjoy every day, but know that you will not. Try to forgive others and yourself. Forget the bad stuff, remember the good. Eat cookies, but not too many. Challenge yourself to do more, to see more. Make plans, celebrate when they pan out, persevere when they don’t. Laugh when things are good, laugh when things are bad. Love with abandon, love selflessly. Life is simple, life is complex, life is short. Your only real currency is time—use it wisely. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

30 " I might having something else for you. Follow me. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Wonder Test

31 " Did you know that bridesmaids’ dresses were traditionally white?” I say. “How could anyone tell the bridesmaids from the bride?” Ethan asks. “They couldn’t. It’s the whole reason the concept of the bridesmaid came about. In tribal times, the bridesmaids, clad in white bridal dresses, served as decoys. If the wedding was raided by a neighboring tribe, the hope was that the invaders would be confused and would accidentally kidnap a bridesmaid instead of the bride. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

32 " Me kõik harjume nii hästi ära selle inimesega, kelleks me end peame. Kanname oma mõtetes mingit kujutlust iseendast, oleme naiivselt kindlad oma moraalsetes piirides, selles, mida me teeksime ja mida ei teeks. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

33 " Maybe there was symmetry everywhere, and the patterns of our days held no less certainty than the mathematical patterns of the universe. Maybe, in order to see the patterns, one simply needed to take a few steps back, turn the page upside down, approach everything from a different angle. "

― Michelle Richmond , No One You Know

34 " Life isn't just about major characters and the big events. It's about everyone, everything, in between. "

― Michelle Richmond , No One You Know

35 " I had never really thought of children as people, just as mysterious and needy creatures on their way to something greater. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Year of Fog

36 " Try to enjoy every day, but know that you will not. Try to forgive others and yourself. Forget the bad stuff, remember the good. Eat cookies, but not too many. Challenge yourself to do more, to see more. Make plans, celebrate when they pan out, persevere when they don’t. Laugh when things are good, laugh when things are bad. Love with abandon, love selflessly. Life is simple, life is complex, life is short. Your only real currency is time—use it wisely. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

37 " I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption we have about marriage is that it involves two people building a life together. But what I wonder is this: Does it require each person to give up the life they built before? Must we shed our former selves? Do we have to give up that which was once important to us as a sacrifice to the gods of marriage? "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

38 " The boy is surrounded for miles on all sides by millions of scattered, dying starfish that have washed ashore with the tide. The boy is picking the starfish up and throwing them back into the water. The academic approaches and asks, “What are you doing?” And the boy tells him that the tide is going out and the starfish will die. Confused, the academic says, “But there are so many, millions even, how can it matter?” The boy leans down, picks one up, and throws it far out into the ocean. He smiles and says, “It matters for that one. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Marriage Pact

39 " The gate closes behinds us. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Wonder Test

40 " Are they going to let you to make up the test?” I ask. "

― Michelle Richmond , The Wonder Test