#lia

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #marriage #partner #years #love

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#alliance #entered #into #man #marriage

You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home. ↗

— Sara Humphreys

#love #romance #untamed #william-and-layla #beauty

No, Belle needed him. He had to save her from a disastrous marriage. And then, he supposed, he'd simply marry her himself. John wasn't unaware that he was about to pull one of the greatest about-faces in history. He could only hope that Belle would understand that he had realized she'd had been right all along. People made mistakes, didn't they? After all, he wasn't some infallible storybook hero. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#splendid #marriage

Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug. No Penelope she; she must hunt in the forest. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#marriage #marriage

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#men

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#men #women #men

She would have kissed him, if she kissed stupid men. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#men

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears ↗