Danh ngôn của Mary Wesley (Sứ mệnh: 2)

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.
Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.