for man and wife to quarrel before folks is rather rudish

In effect, your duty to love is to tune in to what the relationship itself is telling you, rather than to force another into being some conventionally romantic ideal, which would only make them want to escape such a pressuresome expectation.

And for the first few songs, he was encouragingly, overcompensatingly manic, his good leg pumping, talking up the greatness in store.

up here switchbladed laughter pricks at skin better run it will slice you down to mouths studding the ground like pores