#marriage

In between calls, she lay on her side, thinking about calling. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#marriage

A righteous husband is a responsible husband. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#male-female-relationships #marriage #religious #responsibility-to-protect #righteousness

To die never having experience true love is a tragedy ↗

— Anonymus

#love #marriage #experience

Seeing David was a full-body experience. I felt heavy and light at the same time. He gives me butterflies, but they aren’t butterflies. They’re bigger and darker and scarier, like crows. They’re dangerous. And did Bill ever give me butterflies? ↗

— Jessica Hawkins

#love #love-triangle #marriage #the-cityscape-series #experience

[Nessa] didn’t know how to disagree with a preacher, or if she was even allowed to, so she merely wrote, “Thank you, anyway, kind sir, but I am not going to marry you. ↗

— Kristiana Gregory

#faith

Women have married because it was necessary, in order to survive economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic deprivation or social ostracism, in order to remain respectable, in order to do what was expected of women because coming out of "abnormal" childhoods they wanted to feel "normal," and because heterosexual romance has been represented as the great female adventure, duty, and fulfillment. We may faithfully or ambivalently have obeyed the institution, but our feelings - and our sensuality - have not been tamed or contained within it. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#marriage #norms #faith

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves. ↗

— Justin Davis

#faith #forgiveness #marriage #faith

But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty. ↗

— Margaret George

#humor #marriage #family

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families. ↗

— Marina Lewycka

#love #marriage #family

Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family. Maybe that was her color of extraordinary. ↗

— Jandy Nelson

#motherhood #family