Quotes About Marriage

Since the very first moment she had laid eyes on him, Lorna Connaught had loved Dante with a hot fierceness that both excited and shamed her. The excitement came from the knowledge that, from then until the day she died, he would always be hers. Her shame came from the realization that she'd never felt such an achingly deep love like that before. Not even for her husband, Matthew.

I pledged to make this marriage. Now it is a matter of honor." "Honor is a cold bedfellow.

So too did any doubts about the involvement of Loki, god of mischief. That capricious deity was clearly up to his old tricks. How else to explain how a man who adored women-and who was adored by them-found himself with a bride who faced the marriage bed with less enthusiasm than she would a viper-infested den?

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

At dusk she switched to gin. Her marrying hour. The hour between the dog and the wolf. It sometimes seemed that dusk came to the island several times a day. Brought in by storms and fog. The change was in the fog. The Devil. Pearl's mother had once told her that she must never be embarrassed to tell another that she had seen the Devil.

Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works.

I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

Not all at once, but gradually, over the months, another revelation came to me: None of that other stuff, much as I'd loved it, was what made a marriage. Not restaurant dinners or romantic vacations. Not walks on the beach or visits to wine country in the Boxster. Not oysters and martinis or moonlight over the Bay Bridge." "This was a marriage. As uncomfortable and inconvenient and devastating as it might be to live as we did now, we inhabited this place together.

Not until we learned of his illness, and we walked the path of that terrible struggle together, did I understand what it meant to be a couple - to be a true partner and to have one. I learned the full meaning of marriage only as mine was drawing to a close. I discovered what love was as mine departed the world. This is our story.

We lived less like husband and wife, it seemed, than affectionate brother and sister. I told myself there were worse things a person could say about her life than that.

Luego he entendido que estaban jugando. Un marido que se encuentra en la calle con una puta cara. Estaban jugando y no podían dejar que yo dañara el juego.

Ten tus ojos bien abiertos antes del matrimonio; y medio cerrados después de él. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

us were glad to see her get married

What kind of wedding do you want?" "The one with a groom.

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert.

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right man, no doubt I should eat my words with a ready appetite. The simple fact is, I have never seen him yet, and at the age of thirty, reason inclines me rather to conclude that he does not exist, than to persist in the belief that he is still somewhere to be found

A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.

The tendency to late marriages may reflect nothing more than the growth of sense," Lewis Durant said, "At 21, a man seldom knows what he is doing, or where his best interests lie." "I am glad you say a man, Mr. Durant, and exempt woman from this youthful imbecility," Lidia said. "I do: a woman's imbecility is not dependent on youth: it flourishes at all ages.

I thought you didn't believe in marriage." "A man who never contradicts himself must become horribly bored with his own conversation. Oh, on the whole I don't believe in it, except when there is genuine love, which is such a compound of affection, warmth, ease, esteem, and various other spices and condiments rarer than powdered hen's teeth that one hardly expects to come across it once in a lifetime.

fathered an out-of-wedlock child." "Well, at least he isn't shooting blanks," Grammy remarked phlegmatically. "Be careful, Allie. Make him marry you first.

Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?... ...My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all.