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Quotes About Widow

I'm married, yes, but not for long. This girl will be getting a speedy annulment." Another step. "No need. I'll make you a widow.
~ Gena Showalter
The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow
~ Isabel Allende
She had loved her husband with the fierce loyalty of someone who does not question her destiny as a wife, but becoming a widow was a liberation for her.
~ Isabel Allende
The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.
~ Hungarian proverb
I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
~ Anonymous
Her long life spanned American history from the colonial era to the eve of the Civil War, and she died as the last remaining widow of a Founding Father.
~ Susan Holloway Scott
Champagne,' she added to the hovering wine waiter. 'The Widow '23.
~ Kerry Greenwood
my phone rings. I sense my hard-won optimism is about to get a smackdown. The Angel of Death, also known as my mother, Lenore Tate, long-suffering widow and professional pessimist.
~ Kristan Higgins
I hold him in the casket of my widow's head as he held me upon that next best bed.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
The widow becomes God's Exhibit A to teach the world (and his people in particular) how far we have to go before our thoughts and actions line up with his.
~ Carolyn Custis James
She is the widow of a Dothraki khal, a mother of dragons and sacker of cities, Aegon the Conqueror with teats.
~ George R.R. Martin
Truly, sister, you were born to be a widow. (Tyrion to Cersei)
~ George R.R. Martin
I've recently suggested that Betty and I should do a TV series about two seniors living together in an unlikely pairing of a widow and a naughty gay best buddy. We could call it Friends with Government Benefits.
~ George Takei
Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.
~ John Neale
Settled on the carriage seat, Olivia drew in a deep breath, the first in what felt like five years. she knew it was wrong, what she was feeling. Because of widow of only a week shouldn't wish to dance a jig. But God help her, that's precisely what part of her wanted to do. Not on the grave of her recently deceased husband, of course-that would be considered rude. Just off to the side would suffice.
~ Tamera Alexander
Once she entered the period of half-mourning, the widow would
~ Tasha Alexander
I left him and took myself off, having become certain about a fact which was later on to cost me much peace of mind: that in one form or another I was in love with Hosna Bint Mahmoud, the widow of Mustafa Sa'eed, and that I—like him and Wad Rayyes and millions of others—was not immune from the germ of contagion that oozes from the body of the universe.
~ Tayeb Salih
If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .
~ Guru Nanak
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
~ Portuguese Proverb
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
~ Helen Rowland
Well, I may get drunk, the Widow admitted, but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger.
~ Nelson Algren
She tends the fire Burning his letters. They turn black like thin mourning dresses. Yellow names, leaping; above them a blonde woman's hair on her bare shoulders. Red hollow glowing beneath. Illusion of passion. Like fragile layers of widow weeds, matted bluish, shiny, worn and buttons, yes, cheap buttons and words. Her fingers touch the smooth skin on her breasts. She tends the fire.
~ Ursula Hegi
To marry a girl just to make her a widow," said Gabriel Lightwood. "Many would say that was not a kindness.
~ Cassandra Clare
Two Spirits at the childless widow's bed, Childless no more, have by the pitying heavens Been sent...
~ John Wilson, c.1831