He had never quarreled much with this woman, while....

“ He had never quarreled much with this woman, while with the women that he loved he had quarreled so much they had finally, always, with the corrosion of the quarreling, killed what they had together. He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out. ”

Ernest Hemingway

From : The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories