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Debt Chauffeur, that's my name for him now, wants to marry me. He asked me down on bended knee, and I would have been honored - except he wants us to live in London, and he wants me to live white. I crowed at that. I laughed so hard and not a tear came. He couldn't understand it. I don't often think on how white I look; it's always been a question of how colored I feel, and I feel plenty colored. He said that no one in London will know that I'm supposed to be colored. And I said I am colored, colored black, the way I talk, the way I cook, the way I do most everything, and he said but you don't have to be. ↗

— Alice Randall

#born-into-slavery #marriage-proposal #mulatto #the-wind-done-gone #marriage

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one. ↗

— Dennis Hopper

#marriage #marriage

Se as pessoas fizessem a viagem de nupcias antes do casamento, garanto-lhe que os tribunais ficavam livres de muitas buracracias inuteis ↗

— Marc Levy

#marriage

A fit encomium for marital bliss," Beaumont said, putting down his knife and fork. "Dancing to a tune one neither likes nor understands, with a partner who thinks you a cadaver. ↗

— Eloisa James

#marriage #marriage

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#rudeness #marriage

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#marriage

Me agarro el estómago de nuevo. —Me siento vacío... Me siento...muerto. Él asiente. —Matri...monio. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#marriage-humor #r #r-and-julie #zombies #zombies-life

The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way. ↗

— Kathryn Michaels

#breastmilk #childbirth #hero #hope #husband

He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain. ↗

— Aimee Bender

#marriage #woman #love

It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back. ↗

— Margo Lanagan

#love #marriage #relationships #love