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...We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.' We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange the other pains around it. I tell myself that pain is information, that I am learning to map the spaces of my own body. Then my body's feelings cascade toward my side, and pain pours over its outlines and erases them. ("Marriage") ↗

— William S. Wilson

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He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land. The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure. Randy--from Spring Cleaning--Coming Summer 2012 ↗

— Brandi Salazar

#dark #husbands #marriage #stalker #marriage

Really, Mr. Collins,' cried Elizabeth with some warmth, 'you puzzle me exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as to convince you of its being one. ↗

— Jane Austen

#rejection #relationship-humor #marriage

Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

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

— Julian Barnes

#marriage #pudding #life

To demand interest is part of the marriage debt. What man was never guilty of uxory? ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #interest #marriage #usury #uxoriousness

Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#disputes #marriage #relationships #sorry #love

If you mean Miss Austen, I don't find her particularly romantic," Tasmin declared. "Can't say that I care much about the marriage arrangements among the middle classes." Tasmin Berrybender ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#jane-austen #romance #tasmin #marriage

For in marriage a little licence,a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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