"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the 'real soul-mate' is the one you are actually married to."
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J. R. R. Tolkien, letter to Michael Tolkien (March 1941) in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014), p. 51.
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