Bessie-isms:

*Listen to the quiet words of your lover. Don’t make them speak loudly to be heard, or punctuate their comments with the slamming door as they leave you.

*The most painful lesson teaches the deepest lesson, unless you’re determined to remain uneducated by life.

Quotable:

The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely certain he’s dead.

Anthony Sampson