#ride

Maybe Grodzenski was showing me, with his quiet pride, the reason he hummed a little while he worked. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#love

Hello, Mary.' It was like hearing a note of divine calm after a dissonant passage of music. My confusion died away. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#divine #innocent #jane-austen #jennifer-paynter #love

Our apartment is a hotel for losers. A pit stop before the next ride. ↗

— Ida Løkås

#losers #love #pit-stop #ride #love

...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ... ↗

— William Faulkner

#pride #love

This time he could no longer hold back his tears. And with them came words that he’d never been able to say to her his entire life. “I love you, Helena. I have always loved you. Wake up and let me prove it to you. ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#sherry-thomas #tempting-the-bride #love

Oberon "one day Atticus was amazed to discover that when Jupiter said "As you wish," what he really meant was "I love you. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#princess-bride-jokes #love

Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#cheating #heart-broken #infidelity #lost-love #marriage

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards. ↗

— Joseph Wheelan

#pride #men

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man... ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#ethereal #matrimony #men #nerves #prude

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#pride #reputation #wisdom #men