#marriage

What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty. ↗

— Frederick Barthelme

#marriage #quiet #restful #silence #marriage

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me. Those are the years that know– love’s eternity is you. ↗

— C. Elizabeth

#heart-ache #heartache #loss #lost #love-lost

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him? ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#christy #love #marriage #miller #love

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#wives #women #love

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #marriage #love

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#eugenides #love #marriage #royalty #love

But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #love #marriage #the-mortal-instruments #love

It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#marriage

LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #freedom #happiness #heaven #husbands