#ria

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#marriage

It was a peculiar marriage of interests- Lord Averill and Captain Byrne and Lord Bayar and Han Alister agreeing on anything was as rare as gold in Ragmarket. ↗

— Cinda Williams Chima

#agreement #amon-byrne #averill #bayar #han-alister

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#love #marriage #life

People keep looking for the perfect one, but perfection is an attribute of God alone. ↗

— Farahad Zama

#marriage

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#marriage

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution). ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage

And it feels good to feel young with you, and at the same time to grow old with you. And it's all those things together at the same moment. ↗

— Dave Isay

#marriage #love

The Castle. He’d seen this expression far too many times during their marriage. The Castle was Bryony drawing up the gates and retreating deep into the inner keep. And he’d always hated it. Marriage meant that you shared your goddamn castle. You didn’t leave your poor knight of a husband circling the walls trying to find a way in. ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#knight #leo #sherry-thomas #marriage

I’m a combat specialist and marriage counselor.
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— Jarod Kintz

#fight #fighting #marriage #marriage-counselor #quarrel

It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This often produces an ugly marriage of confidence and ignorance that is very difficult to correct for. ↗

— Sam Harris

#marriage