I have a thing for things that last.

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

A marriage is a gift. It should be opened up and enjoyed.

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership.

What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?’I smiled. ‘The stupid kind. Didn’t you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.

Marriage is not easy, I thought to myself. It’s not supposed to be easy. It’s two different people, from two different backgrounds, trying to build a life together for better or worse. It’s something you...

Love is it’s own protection.

every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends;...

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

This was fun. We should find out we’re still married more often.””Why, so every day can be a special new plunge into hell?””Nobody I’d rather burn with than you, babe.

Why the fuck would I marry you? I don’t even like you.

Ah specs it’s kase gempmums doan know whut dey wants. Dey jes’ knows whut dey thinks dey wants. An’ givin’ dem whut dey thinksdey wants saves a pile of mizry an’ bein’ a ole maid....

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and...

I’ve missed you, Sebastian.””Have you, love?” He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. “What part did you miss the most?””Your mind,” she said, and...

I’m getting stale. I always do this time of year. I keep my nose to the grindestone and put in long hours and rustle up good meals and do all the chores and run errands...

Value your wife by valuing what she says.

You can never be happily married to the one you are not happily in-a-relationship with.

I’ve never really had any luck with women in my life. Well, at first I was fairly lucky. Then all of a sudden, they all thought they had to get married for some reason. And...

If it is cancer that is responsible for our new relationship, thenit was all worth it.” And I’d reluctantly agree that cancer had been agift in our lives. We’d both seen the other alternative: patients...

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.-Penelope Featherington

When a man of sense comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, and not an artist. It is not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and...

But just now, he’d gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came...

One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.

Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.

He had never thought in his wildest imagination of marriage as an option forhim. Never believed there was a woman out there that would make him sign up for that particular brand of madness. And,...

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small café across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé...

This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or...

Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

I know you won’t miss me, I know you won’t even bother to ask how i am without you? But still my heart will always call for you, my mind will always think of you...

You’ll repent if you marry, and repent if you don’t.

This terrible thing that happened in my life was such a shock because I never saw any signs of violence or abuse in their marriage,

[L]asting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term,...

I must court her now,’ said the Prince. ‘Leave us alone for a minute.’ He rode the white expertly down the hill.Buttercup had never seen such a giant beast. Or such a rider.’I am your...

Let Love Move You…If you can’t stop thinking of her, it’s because her essence has left an imprint on your heart… on your soul…Don’t be afraid of this feeling; be nourished by it…Let it stir...

For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim.

Marrok, in allthese years, you’ve grown to be like a grandson to me. I believe you can do this. Have faith in yourwolf, son. Where you’re weak, he’s strong. It’s his mate, too, and I...

If I have to ‘catch’ a man to get a husband, I don’t want one.

You can’t. There’s not just one person in the world who’s your type. There’s a whole group with the same likes and dislikes. But you want to spend your whole life looking for all of...

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn’t ride it… You could feed it and brush it and water it and...

Modern wife: A position thought to require great ambition to fill. After initially showing some skill at a maid service or department store, the husband takes her home to find that she has risen too...

[Home Economics Textbook from 1950]: “Prepare yourself. Take fifteen minutes to rest so you’ll look refreshed when hubby comes home from work. Touch up makeup and put a ribbon in your hair. He’s just been...

Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties

Indeed, infatuation thrives on image (while love thrives on knowledge).