#up

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Take me now, God!" I shout to the inky sky. "I´m ready." "You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet," Bunny says. "You cannot die married to that man. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds. ↗

— Julie Powell

#divorce #love #marriage #love

I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#gay #man #stupid #woman #marriage

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are. ↗

— Stephen King

#marriage #relationships #marriage

God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them? ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

…I bet Echo that she couldn't repeat the following line ten times fast:   Cupid's Academy counts kissing cousins as completed conquests cause his classes cunningly conspire unconscious couples to copulate and canoodle copiously. ↗

— Tai Odunsi

#greek-mythology #marriage #mythology #percy-jackson #wedding