#ria

Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#falling-in-love #love #marriage #relationship #short-term-feeling

Oh Bernard she sighed fervently I certinly love you madly you are to me like a Heathen god she cried looking at his manly form and handsome flashing face I will indeed marry you. ↗

— Daisy Ashford

#love #marriage #love

Varian cringed as Merewyn faced him. If he looked half as bad as he suspected, he wouldn’thave blamed her had she run for the door. “You don’t have to do this.” She stepped into his arms. “Yes, Varian, I do.” She brushed the matted hair back from his face. “I don’t care what you look like. It’s you I love, not your looks. Your humor, your kindness, even that little snuffle snore you make when you sleep.” “I don’t snore.” She laughed. “Yes, you do.” And with that she pulled his lips to hers. ↗

— Kinley MacGregor

#knight-of-darkness #merewyn #varian #love

I,” I start, and she turns to look at my lips moving, rehearsing for some grand proposal. “I think it’d be good idea if you brought a few books over and left them on my shelf.” I’m a writer, and this is as good as it gets. She didn’t need a ring, just the ability to borrow a bookmark whenever she needed, or unwritten or unspoken permission to take my copy of Cecil Brown’s The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger with the original cover. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#marriage #proposal #love

But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in love with herself always seems the worst. That's how it is. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevksy

#father #marriage #love

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#marriage #relationships #love

In between calls, she lay on her side, thinking about calling. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#marriage

No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do not hate me, try to love me a little, Father; it is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured. ↗

— Rosemary Sutcliff - Sword at Sunset

#artos #medraut #mordred #sword-ad-sunset #love

He wanted to run to her, wrap her in his arms. Protect her. But it was Jem’s place to do those things, not his. Not his.” -Will Herondale ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #infernal-devices #jem-carstairs #love-triangle #tessa-gray

A righteous husband is a responsible husband. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#male-female-relationships #marriage #religious #responsibility-to-protect #righteousness