#ship

The Betty Lady explains love and splitting up: "It´s like playing the shell game with Jesus. You can´t figure anything out; it´s best not to try. You´ll just humiliate yourself. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #love

To have a caring and committed heart toward someone--a heart so firm in its devotion as to sooner stop beating than neglect the object of its desire despite the person's state of health, appearance, reputation, finances, troubles, or challenges--that, dear world, is love. It is a rare find. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#devotion #heart #love #marriage #relationships

A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#relationships #marriage

.. solo essere liberi di andarsene ogni giorno può dimostrarci la sincerità di un rapporto. ↗

— Vasco Rossi

#marriage #relationships #society #love

I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would collect books, read, and drink tea together. As I told you before, I'd want you for what's in here.' Again he pointed to my heart, but I felt it in a place far lower in my body. ↗

— Lisa See

#love #poetry #love

Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#princess-diana #religion #worship #marriage

He had to get inside. It was essential that he know everything, the routes she took, her schedule, and the lay of the land. The silver moon glowed overhead, mocking him. Somewhere in the trees an owl hooted its laughter at his failure. Randy--from Spring Cleaning--Coming Summer 2012 ↗

— Brandi Salazar

#dark #husbands #marriage #stalker #marriage

Really, Mr. Collins,' cried Elizabeth with some warmth, 'you puzzle me exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal in such a way as to convince you of its being one. ↗

— Jane Austen

#rejection #relationship-humor #marriage

Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, how many times the utterance had any impact whatsoever on our dispute. What a lovely chart one could draw of this word Sorry. ↗

— Ben Marcus

#disputes #marriage #relationships #sorry #love

Oh, no. This has "marriage" written all over it. Travis, read my lips: remember that Fellini film with the prostitute who says that every new sunrise makes her a virgin? It doesn't work that way with me. Even the sun thinks I'm a slut. ↗

— Steve Kluger

#relationships #love