Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Quotations
Marriage
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
-Mark Gorman
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
