#r

Why would men want to do without women? We adore women.” “Because they serve you,” she grumbled. “No.Because they complement us. And I mean complement with an e,not an i. Women are our other halves. Men need women. ↗

— Susan Mallery

#marriage

The next thing I want to say is that God's way is always the best way. It's the only way, really. And God's word clearly says he created sex for one man and one woman to share only inside the commitment of marriage ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#marriage

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#marriage #melancholy #marriage

I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms. ↗

— Brenda Perlin

#home-wrecker #marriage #marriage

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar? ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#marriage #marriage

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who ↗

— Chetan Bhagat

#marriage

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#marriage #pain #marriage

You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#marriage

I generally read every night befi=ore I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#marriage-husbands #reading #marriage

I understand now, why sometimes, you have to lose happiness to find it again… ↗

— Jennifer J. Hayes

#love-hurts #romance-novels #love