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Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or nay. Mine, and I wilna let ye go. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

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Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. ↗

— Stephen Kendrick

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A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones ↗

— Cher

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

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I married a damned cereal killer ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. ↗