#marriage

"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

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

"As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love tht sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love."

"I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married."

"Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy."

"I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed."

"The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits."

"I love you more than I hate everything else."

"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."

"Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided."

"To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up."

"Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing."

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."

"I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self."

"A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones"

"Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and difficult yoga positions and self-realization, and make this so much easier and more pleasant for all concerned."

"So,"he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?""You think it'll be so easy?"she called back over her shoulder. "No way. There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale.""Sounds dangerous.""Very, so think twice.""No need,"he said. "You're worth it."

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!"

"We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams."