#ding

Not everyone makes it fifty-two years, and if you do, it doesn't matter that you once stood in front of all those people and said that you would. The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all the time. Even when everything sucked. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#marriage #weddings #love

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #nicholas-sparks #novels #romance #wedding

What about me?” Wes snapped. “Don’t I get a vote?” Daniel shook his head. “She’s willing and you’re breathing. I pronounce you man and wife. ↗

— Jodi Thomas

#marriage #wedding #marriage

Some Englishman once said that marriage is a long dull meal with the pudding served first. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#marriage #pudding #life

Today is the day after my wedding. And nothing is the way I expected it to be. ↗

— Rachel Abbott

#disappointment #marriage #wedding #marriage

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. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#humour #marriage #men #weddings #marriage

We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them. ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#fiction #reading #inspirational

Don't be jealous, be agressive. Make 2012 yours! ↗

— Rachel Firasek

#reading #romance #writing #inspirational

Keine Frage, die Kunst des Lesens war etwas, um das sie ihn beneidete. Was musste das für ein Gefühl sein, in fremde Welten einzutauchen, nur mit den Augen und durch das Zusammensetzen einiger kryptischer Zeichen? Buchstaben wurden zu Worten, Worte zu Sätzen, und auf einmal befand man sich in einer fremden Stadt oder einem fremden Land. Ganze Welten ließen sich so binnen eines Wimpernschlags durchqueren. ↗

— Thomas Thiemeyer

#reading #inspirational

Reality [...] at every level from photons to philosophical fancies to the consciousness of living organisms was fluid [...]. To break apart and confine this reality into separate categories created by the mind was foolish and futile, much like trying to capture a ray of light inside a dark wooden box. This urge to categorize was the true fall of man [...] the infinite became finite, good opposed evil, thoughts hardened into beliefs, one's joys and discoveries became dreadful certainties, man became alienated from what he perceived as other ways and other things, and, ultimately, divided against himself, body and soul. [...] Always seeking meaning, always making their lives safe and comfortable, human beings do not truly live. ↗

— David Zindell

#reminding #inspirational