He smiled. “I suppose I thought we’d have a madly impractical, terrifyingly modern sort of marriage. One based on love. Not to mention dangerous undertakings and hair’s-breadth escapes from burning buildings, high ledges and exploding sewers.””And bickering.””Always that, yes.””Assuming I want to marry at all.””True. I know of no good way of forcing you to do anything.””And you’re mad enough to think it could work – one day?”He cupped her face in his hands. His smile was so brilliant it seemed to illuminate the room. “I think it would be heaven.”She trembled, then. “You have a very strange idea of heaven.””Kiss me and see.
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Quote from Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Quote from Shannon L. Alder
Quote from Zig Ziglar
Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.
Quote from Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
Quote from Martin Luther, The Sermons of Martin Luther: 7 Volumes
Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: ‘Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar? I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want.’ But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God’s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God’s blessing. For if you had trust in God’s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper.
Quote from Ngina Otiende, The Wedding Night: Embracing Sexual Intimacy as New Bride
Quote from Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance … some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.
Quote from William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Quote from Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After
When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)