#love

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#marriage #romance #love

It might do wonders for your marriage,” Amelia continued. “It’s lovely to talk to your husband after you’ve been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything.” - Amelia to Poppy ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

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Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. ↗

— Rob Bell

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Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. "... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her." "Who was it?" "His own wife." "Oh, dear. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#hathaways #love #love-in-the-afternoon #marriage #love

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. ↗

— Michael Palin

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Marriage is like super glue. It holds you together tight. Unfortunately- you're kinda stuck ↗

— Alina K.

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It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves," he lamented. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#stroke #love

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#marriage #teen-fiction #young-adult #love

I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#good #intensity #love #marriage #spouse

He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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