#ria

I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think I could place them in such a view. You will allow that in both man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty each to endeavor to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbors, or fancying that they should have been better off with any one else. ↗

— Jane Austen

#faithfulness #marriage #matrimony #faith

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there. ↗

— Amy Hempel

#lovers #marriage #love

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#poetry #love

... gay marriage rights coming and going, always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual‘s private choice. ↗

— G.A. Hauser

#gay-rights #love #marriage #love

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition. ↗

— Ayelet Waldman

#marriage #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

I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing. ↗

— Graham Greene

#marriage

I can see you are a fine lady, but this boy is randy as a goat around you and it's plain to see. If he seeks the joys of wedded bliss, he can wed you. Without a weddin' he'll be havin' no bliss. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#marriage

They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation