Quotes About Marriage

The boundaries between us had been breached for good, we gave a new meaning t the notion that man and wife were one flesh. You could track back this kind of alchemy in books: '...intimately to mix and melt and to be melted together with his beloved, so that one should be made out of two.' This is Shelley translating Plato, who was putting words into the mouth of Aristophanes, who's the only defender of heterosexual sex in the Symposium, although he makes it sound perverse.

Man and wife, realist and dreamer ... n truth they were more than one flesh, they had formed and sustained each other, they had ONE STORY between them and it wasn't at all easy for me or my brother to inhabit it.

Like many who'd married in the war, my parents were finding it hard to survive the peace. This wasn't because they had discovered that they didn't love each other once their life together wasn't spiced with constant separations and the threat of death. Far from it. But they hadn't chosen each other so much against the social grain that they were tense, self-conscious, embattled, as though something was supposed to go wrong. Their families didn't like their marriage, nor did the village.

I was proud of you today, handling William Long the way you did." Her fingers stilled. "What did you think of him the first time you met him?" she asked quietly. "That he was the kind of man you should have married." "And now you don't think that anymore?" "Now, it doesn't matter. You're married to me." "I was the night you met him." Jake's eyes met and held hers in the moonlight. "No, you weren't. Not really." His arm tightened around her. "But you are now.

I appreciate all the trouble you went to in order to ensure my survival." "Purely selfish, I assure you." "Because you need me to oversee your household?" "Because I need you to marry. Men tend to frown at the notion of marrying someone who isn't breathing.

Once, when our paths crossed, he told me that the kindest thing I'd ever done was to not marry him. Perhaps because he was passionately in love with a woman who possessed the wisdom to adore him as he deserved.

You married me thinking I would force myself on you?" "I married you knowing that women have very little say in how they are treated.

assumed he meant to marry me. So I ran off with him. He was exciting,

Allow me to introduce Viscount Fitzwilliam," Lady Ivers continued. Sebastian had a strong need to groan. The night would no doubt be filled with tedious introductions. "You are a fortunate man, my lord, to have won Lady Mary over." "I'd have not asked for her hand in marriage if I'd thought otherwise." Right then. So we're not going to get along famously.

I'm well aware that I do not belong with the aristocracy." "Yet here you are with an aristocrat." "You and I both know, Your Grace, that marriage is not what you have in mind." His eyes darkened as his gaze traveled from her upswept hair to the toes of her recently polished shoes. "No. Marriage is not what I have in mind.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

There was not much interest in Sarah's life to draw researchers to the Berlin archives. Sarah, aware that she had something to hide, had led the way in shaping an image of herself as the most devoted of wives, and before her death she weeded out letters that friends, according to the custom of the day, returned to her. Her immediate survivors outdid her. They destroyed letters that even Sarah had preserved, perhaps to blur the intense unhappiness of the first decades of her marriage.

Violet, surveying him with a cruel detachment, had never felt less married.

A lady is in the newspaper but three times in her life. When she is born—" "When she marries and when she dies

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Lloyd, she's here,' I call out, unnecessarily, to my husband (he's not deaf, but it gives me the illusion of being in control).

We've managed to make a good marriage. This I say with all humility. It's a marriage in which there is nothing that can be hurt by the roughest usage. It's a marriage that you can let yourself go in, a marriage in which you can put your feet up and relax.

Every woman occasionally wonders what manner of man she has married. No matter how long she has been living with her husband, once in a while he presents a new face. It's the bunk about women being enigmas and men being just transparent little boys at heart. Or else I'm gullible.

Harriet: Is it fun being married? Ole Golly: How should I know? I've never been married. However, I doubt it's all fun. Nothing ever is, you know.

Armand Gamache was never more glad he'd married this woman, who made his battles theirs.

Now there will be no more loneliness," said the minister, as he gave his final blessing on the couple. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.