#age

…I bet Echo that she couldn't repeat the following line ten times fast:   Cupid's Academy counts kissing cousins as completed conquests cause his classes cunningly conspire unconscious couples to copulate and canoodle copiously. ↗

— Tai Odunsi

#greek-mythology #marriage #mythology #percy-jackson #wedding

One thing I learned, between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get off of. You can't get clean from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though. Darlene, in The Marriage Plot ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#the-marriage-plot #marriage

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#feel-sorry #marriage #pity #marriage

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#marriage #marriage

... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already. ↗

— David Crockett

#marriage #marriage

Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing." These is my words ↗

— Nancey E. Turner

#swearing #marriage

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#divorce #evidence #infidelity #marriage #pencils

It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at sea and there was no guarantee of rescue. ↗

— Adam Ross

#marriage

It’s not about having enough time, it’s about making enough time. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#motivational-quotes #time-management #inspirational

We don't have anything in common. We just complement each other. You don't have to do everything together; you need some distance between you. But there's no ideal distance and there are only two possibilities: either you reduce the distance or you enlarge it. And because we want to reduce the distance, we're going to get married. Some time or another. ↗

— Eva Heller

#marriage #relationships #marriage