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Donna Woolfolk Cross Quotes: To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.
         

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.


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Strange, the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moment's unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.



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She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.



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This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.



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