Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

I could hold on to everything for the rest of my life. I don't make friends easy, and I don't lose friends easy.

I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

It's one of the hardest things in the world to sustain a monogamous relationship for many years. People out there who have been with their partners for 30 years or more - I salute you. But it's just as hard to admit something isn't working and then try to manage a civilised separation as best as you can.

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

No one person is an island.

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.