Clergyman's

“The reason for the absence of success in your life is not due to the lack of money, but to not having enough knowledge of the principles of success”
— Sunday Adelaja

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
— Roger de Rabutin de Bussy

“She’d started swimming early in the morning, when the kids were asleep, when she thought he was asleep. She didn’t know her absence woke him, that the shift in the bed was an earthquake. When she climbed back in, she smelled like salt and seaweed. Sometimes her hair would still be knotted on top of her head. She tried to keep it dry. She didn’t want him to know. The problem with marrying the mermaid girl from the carnival was knowing that one day she’d swim away.”
— Erika Swyler