#ria

you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better. ↗

— Daphne Gottlieb

#passion #poetry #relationships #sex #marriage

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#marry #single #marriage

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#being-loved #love #marriage #relationships #truth

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#marriage #marriage

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

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love. ↗

— Stephen Kendrick

#love #marriage #unconditional-love #love

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. ↗

— William Blake

#perception #marriage

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. ↗

— Dave Meurer

#marriage #marriage

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#growing-older #marriage #marriage

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#marriage