#ge

Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year, grinding. Instead of helping each other you just sliced away, picked at this or that. Goading. Endless goading. It became a cheap contest. And once you got into it, it became habitual. You couldn't seem to get out. You almost didn't want to get out. And then you did get out. All the way. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#marriage #realism #marriage

Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad. ↗

— Alexandra Bogdanovic

#memoir #truth #marriage

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out... ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#marriage

I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work. ↗

— Amy E. Spiegel

#wishes-for-my-kids #marriage

I now pronounce yo a mated pair," the cardinal said, clearly pleased with himself over the phrase. There was an expectant pause while everyone waited for the line that he'd clearly forgotten. "Better kiss her quick, wolfie," Jamie teased gently. Holgar swept Skye up in his arms, and she squealed with joy as they kissed. ↗

— Nancy Holder

#love #marriage #skye #love

When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else. ↗

— Grace Kelly

#marriage #love

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject. ↗

— Jane Austen

#marriage

You've done proper already, and it hasn't worked. It's time you do dirty. ↗

— Jennifer Probst

#contemporary-romance #erotica #marriage

...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife. ↗

— Lanier Ivester

#language #marriage #wife #marriage

I want to discover every hidden secret of your body and a thousand ways to make you scream my name. ↗