Quotes About Partnership

I want to get married. We are married. I want to do it again. Let's just do it.

When did we get the idea that disposable marriages were all right? Shouldn't people have figured out by now that it's not going to be easy? Marriage takes hard work. It takes sacrifice and commitment." -- Dr. Isabel Favor, America's diva of self-help.

Dancer nudged him in the shoulder. "I know, fella. She got me good. And it's my own fault." His horse poked him in the jaw in agreement.

I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband

You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I'm not getting rid of Pooh." "See, there you go being antagonistic. Marriage means learning to compromise." "I didn't say I wouldn't compromise. I promise to take the ribbon out of her topknot before you walk her.

A person chooses a partner with a similar degree of "brokenness" and does a dance of dysfunction where they both know the steps. Therefore, one person cannot be so much healthier than the other. Healthy people do not dance with unhealthy people.

A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.

He thought she'd slow him down. He could barely keep up with her.

She's a smokejumper who's afraid of fire. He's the partner who can't forgive himself for loving her. Now they must face the flames together if they hope to survive the Summer of Fire.

The magic Prince she didn't believe existed wasn't a guy on a white horse; he was someone who understood he. Someone she understood. An equal. (Chapter 11)

Do you wake up one day and say "hey honey, let's have a baby goat and guava jam business"?

People who have been single for a long time tend to be independent. That's not necessarily bad, but you need to remember you're half of a team now.

It's said that the best thing in life is to be happily partnered and the next best thing is to be happily single

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as families, teams, and communities with common goals.

Once you achieve intimacy and connection, I predict that innovation, partnership, execution and success won't be far behind.

Ah, God, Lys" he breathed, and she opened her eyes to look up at him. She was the love of his heart, his true partner in both work and life, and the idea of losing her to the violence of the world they lived in scared the living shit out of him. But her smile lit her eyes, her face, and he pushed the darkness away and let himself grin back at her like the damn fool that he was. This moment-now-was perfect, and he wasn't going to let his fears interfere.

He wanted Eden, and he wanted Pinkie, but mostly he wanted Eden, because together they could make their own Pinkie.

If she'll have me, I'm going to marry her.

I know the M-word makes you nervous, but yeah. I'm talking about the big, permanent friendship. A little different from what Joe and Charles had, though. See, I want to be the kind of best friends who make love every night, who share all their darkest secrets and favorite jokes, and maybe even someday make babies together. I know that kind of friendship requires hard work, but you know, I'm pretty good at hard work. ~ Tom Paoletti, "The Unsung Hero

So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.

Gale is mine. I am his. Anything else is unthinkable.

What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.

I don't think it's going to work out. Winning...won't help in any case. Because...she came here with me. - Peeta Mellark