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It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket. ↗

— Cinda Williams Chima

#agreement #amon-byrne #averill #bayar #han-alister

Life is beautifully tragic. Giving it up isn't the hard part; it's the living part that everyone struggles with. ↗

— Allison Blanchard

#inspirational #life-and-death #love #beauty

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#marriage

The Castle. He’d seen this expression far too many times during their marriage. The Castle was Bryony drawing up the gates and retreating deep into the inner keep. And he’d always hated it. Marriage meant that you shared your goddamn castle. You didn’t leave your poor knight of a husband circling the walls trying to find a way in. ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#knight #leo #sherry-thomas #marriage

I’m a combat specialist and marriage counselor.
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— Jarod Kintz

#fight #fighting #marriage #marriage-counselor #quarrel

I think a great book title would be “Ida Says ‘I do’ in Idaho.” It would be about a divorce in Washington State, and the protagonist would be a woman, though I’m not sure what her name should be. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#divorce #idaho #marriage #name #protagonist

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out. ↗

— Alessandra Torre

#love #love-advice #marriage #marriage-advice #needs

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. ↗

— William Blake

#pluralism #marriage

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing. ↗

— Elif Batuman

#truth #beauty

Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation... ↗

— Betty Smith

#betty-smith #humor #joy-in-the-morning #marriage #humor