#ily

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#contraception #family-planning #family

Do you know how marriage was defined in ancient Greece? Noel said in a calmer tone. Its really simple. A virgin goes to mans house with the family gathered as witnesses. The virgin and the man share a fire, a meal, and a bed. If the girl wasn't a virgin in the morning, then the couple was considered married. That's it ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#couple #family #girl #marriage #witnesses

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#family

Pray that God is the most important thing in your life, so much so that hurting him wold hurt you. When that happens, and your choices line up with his, it produces an amazing ripple effect of blessings--in your life, that of your family, and for the man you eventually marry. ↗

— Julie Lessman

#family

Flea stared at us, "I can't decide what's worse. Losing family members or not having a family member to lose. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#flea #maria-v-snyder #touch-of-power #family

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you’d given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn’t know the outcome for a long time. ↗

— Meg Wolitzer

#family #family

Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting ↗

— Mark Gorman

#family #god #inspirational #love #marriage

True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the Human Family and the Human Society complete. ↗

— Malcolm X

#malcolm-x #family

The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#monica-morrell #morganville #family

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be. ↗

— Patrick deWitt

#family