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Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever. ↗

— William Goldman

#the-princess-bride #weddings #marriage

Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow. ↗

— Graham Joyce

#love #marriage #relationships #love

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is. ↗

— George Eliot

#marriage #married #marriage

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#suffering #love

It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#gay-marriage #marriage #marriage

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#old-maid #spinsterhood #marriage

She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#marriage

Expect poison from the standing water. ↗

— William Blake

#middle-america #society #marriage

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#fear #laughing #death

Don't feel too bad, tracker," said the Darkling. "All men can be made fools. ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#men