Quotes of: Samesex-marriage Keyword

..he had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part of those involved, and for the mercy on the part of bystanders.

The House on Fortune Street

Love may not be quid pro quo but marriage certainly is.

I Want Back My Sparkle!: Breaking the Global Chains of Gender Slavery.

When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.

Recipes for a Perfect Marriage

The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.

Sleepwalking in Daylight

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

Safe Haven

On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind.

The Second Seduction of a Lady

For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and she him.

Mrs. Dalloway

Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember.

Night Music

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.

Letters to Emma Bowlcut

Above all marriage is a new task and a new seriousness—a new challenge and a question regarding the strength and kindness of each participant and a new great danger for both.

Letters on Life

Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.

The Story of a Marriage

Marriage did not hold much interest for Urmila but it was a social discipline she would have to conform to. She would rather seek knowledge instead of a suitor.

Sita's Sister

As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

The Power of Praying: Help for a Woman's Journey Through Life

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Prayers for Sale

They had as good a shot at making it as anyone did, but what if marriage didn't solve anything and didn't save anyone even a little bit? What then?

The Paris Wife

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

The Ruins of Ambrai

I could only see you. I only wanted to be with you. But marriage is never just two people, is it? It's so much more.

The Runaway Countess

I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again. - Kristine

Wild Rose (Kristine Series, #11)

But there was nothing at all safe about marriage. It was a doubtful enterprise, a voyage in an untested craft, across a hostile ocean, with a map that was a forgery and with no particular destination but the grave.

Werewolves In Their Youth