Dorrie gave Larry’s hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they’d chosen or which had chosen them.

Heiraten heißt das Mögliche t(h)un, einander zum Ekel zu werden.(Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.)

Honor, obey?” Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. “This is what you call being a good wife?”I stopped. “I never said I’d be a good wife, Guy. Just that I’d marry you.

I’m not sure how we got to this place, where a girl’s only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.

For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a welfare institution?Is marriage, this opus contra natura a path to individuation or a...

This is a terribly dangerous journey” said Bjorn, “and few would have the courage to make it except you and me”. His wife said, “if you let Kari down, you had better realise that you...

A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling.

We talked about all the decades to come and how they would never be enough.

You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, ‘Well done.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and even their role in conception was unknown. Here the chain of...

You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.

Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn’t we? We may forget even to hate.

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life–to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to...

How could a man ever trust in a womans judgment when he knows she chose him for a husband?

Life’s too short to take yourself seriously, and too long to take a wife jokingly.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting...

True love is more than physical, emotional and romantical. It’s an acceptance of all that has been, that is, will be and will not be.

While getting a haircut, I thought about my failed marriage. Instead of feeling bad, I thought I’d grow a beard, move to the mountains, and start over.

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why...

It was my grandmother who first told me that a woman marries a man in the belief that he’ll change but he doesn’t — and a man marries a woman in the belief that she...

With the act of marriage the situation frequently changes fundamentally. The marriage contract gives each partner the exclusive possession of the other’s bo dy, feelings, and care. Nobody has to be won over any more,...

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

The love I have for you far exceeds all love I have given

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

There was another silence. I felt, above all, tired. Tiredness: if there was a constant symptom of the disease in our lives at this time, it was tiredness. At work we were unflagging; at home...

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being–neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there’s no question of integration or intermarriage. It’s just...

You know your husband truly loves you when he calls you, “Money, I’m home!

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

What do you think they were doing? Playing a few hands of Find-the-Lady?

He eyed me curiously, his eyes fluttering over my breasts, and I swallowed, knowing he was thinking things he shouldn’t. His tongue snuck between his lips and lightly darted to moisten them. I heard what...

Why, could the good man not impose his will, control his wife? asked Mrs. Carew, who always made much of masculine authority in her talk with friends but ruled the roost at home.

The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in the minutiae of...

You know what you are to me? … You are the most important thing in my life. You are my friend… my lover… my family… the one I trust, the one I fight with, the...

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

The central truth that serves as the platform for Christian marriage — and for all Christian relationships — is that in Christ we are at every moment eternally loved and genuinely significant.

Despite her unrepentant aversion to Italian food, which her husband put down to her nation’s historic distrust of Italy, she suddenly declared: “All I want in life is to be able to get a take-away...

All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage.

I never married, but if I had done so, I’m sure I’d have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why...

A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have.

Dating isn’t a natural need; it is a social want.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worse habits.

I know one thing about men,” Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. “They never die when you want them to.

How could you do that to me?” I repeat. I don´t have to itemize. He knows what I speak of.Eventually N produces three answers, in this order:1. “Because I am a complete rotter.” I silently...

I want to grow old with you. I want your face to be the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. I want to feel my children...

A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight’s just too heavy on the one side, and the other can’t lift to it.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t...

A wife is meant to be cherished and to be treated with a gentle hand, while a mistress is a convenient cunt to rut in.