WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg chemistry – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 L'Engle, Madeleine -- Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (1988) https://wist.info/lengle-madeleine/51756/ https://wist.info/lengle-madeleine/51756/#respond Thu, 24 Feb 2022 20:41:51 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=51756 We were not a latter-day Héloïse and Abelard, Pelléas and Mélisande when we married. For one thing the Héloïse and Abelards, Pelléases and Mélisandes, do not get married and stay married for forty years. A love which depends solely on the combustion of two attracting chemistries, tends to fizzle out. The famous lovers usually end up dead. A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.


Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
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