Quotes of: Traditional-marriage Keyword

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

The Chemickal Marriage

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

The Casual Vacancy

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Diamonds Are Forever

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

Deathless

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

Eleven Minutes

When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families.

Fearlessly Feminine

Anything of worth is costly: devotion to Christ, a strong marriage, financial responsibility, a life of integrity, and of course, fearlessly feminine mothering.

Fearlessly Feminine

It's part of the marriage vows. Didn't you read the fine print? To have and to harass.

Fall of Night

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Forever Odd

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Galápagos

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

Golden State

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Gone with the Wind

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Handle with Care

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

Handle with Care

This daemon loves men whose marriage beds have grown cold, so she can set them ablaze.

An Hour of Decadence

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

Blind Leading Another

Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled.

A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers