#proposal

So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?" "You think it'll be so easy?" she called back over her shoulder. "No way. There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale." "Sounds dangerous." "Very, so think twice." "No need," he said. "You're worth it. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#humor #love #marriage #proposals #age

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And I ask in what sense that young man is worthy of me? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

If you offer some good plans to a person and you face the rejection, don't ever mind bad. When you planned something for a person, a person may, too was planning something for himself. To speak openly, even your sincere offering to God is too experience a rejection. Don't you remember the phrase "Man proposes and God disposes". ↗

— Manish Kathuria

#offers #plan #proposal #rejection #remember

We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each other's bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you." His nostrils flared, and he looked suddenly proud. "I could work. You would not be poor. I would help you." "Sounds like a marriage," I said, trying to lighten the atmosphere. But my voice was too shaky. "Yes," he said. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#marriage-proposal #sookie-stackhouse #love

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#love #marriage #proposals #rhett-butler #love

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#marriage #marriage-proposal #love

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me ↗

— Winston Churchill

#marriage-proposal #marriage

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#how #i #i wish #plan #proposal

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#i #just #know #last #last night

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#constant #counts #democrats #own #policy