Quotes About Marriage

That's what marriage was, at the core—the exclusive right to spend as much time with someone you loved as they were willing to give.

Marry him. We need college money.

Hugh shut his eyes for a long moment. The world was sliding sideways, and he really needed to get a grip. "Who would I be marrying?" "The White Warlock." Hugh's eyes snapped open. "You want me to marry a man?

She sighed. "Come on, then, wife. Put on a happy face." "Ugh." She reached over and slid her fingers into the crook of his elbow. "Good God, control yourself, woman. We're in public. At least wait until we're in the bedroom." "Your corpse will grow lovely goldenseal." He laughed again and walked her down to the smithy.

And just to be crystal clear," Elara said. "This marriage is in name only." "Sweetheart, you couldn't pay me enough." Pink touched her tan cheeks. "If you betray us, I'll make you suffer." "We haven't even married yet, and I'm suffering already." "We have that in common," she snapped.

Kaldar stopped pacing. It was decided, then. He would marry Audrey. He just had to convince her to see things from his point of view.

So snarl all you want, princess. But you will marry me, because you have no choice. You won't win this fight with farmers. You need a cold ruthless bastard like me, and I'm the only one here.

Most men got married because they were comfortable where they were, and breaking free was too hard and too unpleasant.

He wanted to marry her. "For men like you, 'marriage' sounds a lot like 'sentenced to forced labor in the mines.

Erra pointed at Curran with her thumb. You want to marry this? Is there a shortage of men?

I don't know a room suitable to a woman I asked to marry me and who replied with 'maybe.

When he finds out who I'm going to marry, he'll have an aneurysm. His head will explode. It's good that he's a doctor, maybe he can treat himself.

She thought of the past that was both near and distant at the same time, undoubtedly because of the grim intrusion of the war. She pictured her husband, a heavy, bored man, interested only in money, land and local politics. She had never loved him; she had married him because her father wished it. Born and brought up in the countryside, she had little experience of the outside world, with the exception of a few brief trips to Paris to visit an elderly relative.

Marianne se tut brusquement, songeant que l'amour conjugal pouvait croître non seulement sans l'aide des époux, mais malgré eux, malgré les querelles, les déceptions et les trahisons, croître par sa propre vertu, comme un enfant.

Un'unione dove il cuore non ha voce è una caricatura dell'amore coniugale.

Le bonheur conjugal ne ressemble pas plus au bonheur tout court que l'amour conjugal ne ressemble à l'amour. (...) Il est négatif, (...) fait d'une somme de malheurs victorieusement déjoués.

I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible . I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower...

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

She had never been filled with her love like a calm brimming vessel. She had rather suffered it, as a tree might suffer a cold wind, and the image of a coldness was somehow mingled with her memories of marital love.

He simply would not have married anybody whom he loved in that rather simple mediocre sort of way.

I shall not attempt here to describe my marriage. Some impression of it will doubtless emerge. For the present story, its general nature rather than its detail is important. It was not a success. At first I saw her as a life-bringer. Then I saw her as a death-bringer. Some women are like that. There is a sort of energy which seems to reveal the world: then one day you find you are being devoured. Fellow victims will know what I mean. Possibly I am a natural bachelor.

I'm afraid you're all mixed up in my mind,' I said. 'I wonder where they are now –' 'Married.' She spoke it as if it were the name of a distant country.

When dealing with a married couple one can never be neutral. The hot magnetic power of each one's view of the other makes the spectator sway.