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You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#marriage

I generally read every night befi=ore I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#marriage-husbands #reading #marriage

I'll have no husband, if you be not he. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#love #marriage #love

Love has this in common with qualms, that it turns sour through the reflections on it and the return visits that one makes to it in order to deliver oneself from it. ↗

— Madeleine Gide

#distance #love #marriage #love

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask. "Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday. ↗

— Libba Bray

#going-bovine #marriage #marriage

Reason we're here is because almost every lovin' kid in the Glade has come up to me in the last day or two either boohooing about Thomas or beggin' to take his bloody hand in marriage... ↗

— James Dashner

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The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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