#marriage

I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making and his jokes and stories and what he reads and how he likes fishing and walks and pigs and foxes and little animals and is honest and not vain or fame-crazy and how he shows his gladness for what I cook him and joy for when I make him something, a poem or a cake, and how he is troubled when I am unhappy and wants to do anything so I can fight out my soul-battles and grow up with courage and a philosophical ease. I love his good smell and his body that fits with mine as if they were made in the same body-shop to do just that. What is only pieces, doled out here and there to this boy and that boy, that made me like pieces of them, is all jammed together in my husband. So I don't want to look around any more: I don't need to look around for anything. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#marriage #romance #courage

The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science and art. With Stephen it's all empathy and imagination and exploration and the shock of the new, and the outcome is... uncertain, if you know what I mean. I'm engaged by it, but I', mot necessarily sure what its all about. David, on the other hand, presses this button, then that one, and bingo! It's like operating a lift - just as romantic, but actually just as useful. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#sex #art

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#jealousy #marriage #possession #jealousy

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#life

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#love #marriage #life

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#love #tales-of-love-and-marriage #life

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#the-matchmaker-of-kenmare #marriage

Don't forget to wish your husband good-morning when he sets off to the office. He will feel the lack of your good-bye kiss all day. ↗

— Blanche Ebbutt

#marriage

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things. ↗

— Deanna Raybourn

#intrigue #marriage #mystery #nicholas-brisbane #partnership

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) ↗