#v

She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#garrick #line #losing-it #love #marriage

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

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage. ↗

— Robert Anderson

#love #work #love

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#allies #existentialism #love #madness #pain

Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me. Those are the years that know– love’s eternity is you. ↗

— C. Elizabeth

#heart-ache #heartache #loss #lost #love-lost

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#intimacy #love

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him? ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#christy #love #marriage #miller #love

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#wives #women #love

She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #marriage #love

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#eugenides #love #marriage #royalty #love