#pa

Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#love

In the town where I live, I have frequently observed a phenomenon I have come to think of as Samish-Sex Marriage. ↗

— George Saunders

#page- #marriage

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#grandparents #marriage

We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them. ↗

— Adam Rex

#humor #ideal-partner #marriage #humor

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality. ↗

— Sarah Mally

#christian-living #girls #marriage #parental-guidance #purity

I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#heart #inspirational #life-lessons #painful #poetry

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#capable #equality #helping #individually #most

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials. ↗

— Will Rogers

#editorials #forty #more #paper #than

This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be. ↗

— Faye Snyder

#children #inspirational #parenting #psychology #inspirational