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...there’s few on Earth as can cut a man deeper than his childless wife. ↗

— Craig Russell

#craig-russell #marriage #wife #marriage

A well-worn marriage was like a shop-soiled currency note. Its only fault was that it had been in circulation for too long – it didn’t smell fresh, feel crisp to your fingers and fill you with a sense of possibilities as you held it in your hand, like a newly minted, fresh-from-the-press one did. ↗

— Manjul Bajaj

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I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work. It's astonishing how many people remain shackled for years, decades even, in a protracted and mutual state of self-delusion and false hope when in fact they had their answer in those first two weeks. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

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Even when there were good wars to write about, writers such as Jane Austen wrote novels concerning marriage. They usually went like this: 'You're being a real jerk.' 'Sorry about that. I was secretly helping you.' 'Oh, you're wonderful! And you have so much money! You're my new favorite cousin!' 'Let's get married." The End. ↗

— Dan Wilbur

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Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us. ↗

— Denise Fields

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Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It takes a lifetime to learn another person…When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#love #marriage #courage

Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I'm paying you $1,000 when all you're doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE ↗

— Andy Ostrom

#dance #dj #etiquette #marriage #wedding

When Pauline Pfeiffer wrote Hadley Hemingway, "I've seen your husband E. Hemingway several times...”, how could she not be blamed for breaking up the marriage. I'm not buying that Pauline was naive. ↗

— Ruth A. Hawkins

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Will you wear my ring so all the world knows yer mine?" Beck wasn't asking for her hand in marriage, but it was so close he might as well be. Riley was deeply touched and she struggled to find the right words. "Yes," she began. "I'd be proud to. ↗

— Jana Oliver

#lovers #riley-blackthorne #ring #marriage

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered? ↗

— Kate Atkinson

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