In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.[Dedication to Sagan’s wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]

The fences I thought meant security were the walls of a prison instead…A fearful spirit is never from the Lord (2 Timothy 1:7). It’s the prison, not the cliff, that’s the scary place. It’s awful...

Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like … it’s easy to love rain … and hawks. And it’s easy to love wild plums … and the moon. But with people, seems like love’s a hard thing...

If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.

Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, ‘But who is to support the children?’ It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection...

Even if most days can’t be half as good as today, it’s days like this that make it all worth it.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry – the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his...

If I weren’t married, and I didn’t have a girlfriend, I’d ask that girl out. But what can I do? I’m an honorable guy.

Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:Well, that’s that. I’m off, and if you don’t believe I’m leaving, just count the days I’m gone....

I am a jealous husband wife, and I feel your pain. All of it, for all of you.

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies–mother, I can’t speak of what I shall feel if she dies.” His voice was choked in his throat.

I think that’s why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don’t get that, they feel as though they’re going to die. And so...

If I am capable of loving you Lord MacCaulay, of devoting myself to you, it will never be under the terms to which other women submit, for I am battle-born – a female warrior sworn...

I had a dream about you. We were married and I walked into the room to see you in my new black dress and high heels and I said “That’s not what I meant when...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But...

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Chese now,” quod she, “oon of thise thynges tweye:To han me foul and old til that I deye,And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,Or elles ye wol...

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty,

Can we make promises to each other, as if we were truly married? Can we swear to be true and faithful and love only each other and all those things? Because I’m in such pain,...

what is the matter with me? Am I too particular? I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone...

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God’s plan of teamwork.

There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn’t Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but...

Put work into your dreams.

There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you’ll send her away very soon.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and...

I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same...

A salary is, to a man’s employer, what his wife’s vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.

Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.

You don’t seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

Jack prese la lettera, borbottò uno «scusami» e si ritirò. Tornò poco dopo, più alto, più dritto nella persona, il volto raggiante. «Signore Iddio, Stephen, è la lettera più bella che io abbia mai ricevuto....

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in...

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

The best thing about flying first class….was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

In the modern world, youth should know the nature of true love. Many from abroad, mix with persons of the opposite sex, calling them boy friend and girl friend. If you really love each other...

What do you mean, ‘Angle of Repose?’ she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother’s life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down....

First time since I come to Am’rica, I not with husband or Rekha or in restaurant or store or car or apartment. I’s all alone and I loves it. First time I feel everything not...

Adrian Mole’s father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Ego, being love’s kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.

A rich man is most coveted but I’d be damned if I be a poor woman

When that bastard calls back, you tell him he’s won this round. I’ll marry him. But I don’t take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life...

Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we’ll start with forever.