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“It hit the counter and shattered with the sort of finality usually reserved for marriages and illusions.”

Book:21st Century Intolerant: A collection of short stories about the struggles of modern life, from the trivial to the terrifying.

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“Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her as visible as her front door[...] If she chooses a wastrel she will be avoidedd by all her neighbours as a poor woman; catch a duke and she will be Your Grace[...]. She can be pious, she can be learned she can be witty and wise and beautiful; but if she is married to a fool she will be that 'poor Mrs Fool' until the day he dies.”

Marriage Historical Womanhood

Book:The Other Queen

Source: The Other Queen

“Loving Dean had taught her that jealousy was addictive: the perverse thrill when her worst fears were confirmed, the terrible vindication of learning she’d been right all along. In some demented way, it was deeply satisfying. Jealousy was like outsmarting love.”

Love Marriage Young Adult Jealousy Cheating Infidelity

Book:Rabbit Moon

Source: Rabbit Moon

“I wonder where it is...that unknown house. Shall I love it best by moonlight or dawn? That home of the future where we will have love and friendship and work...and a few funny adventures to bring laughter in our old age.”

Marriage Future Future Home

Book:Anne of Windy Poplars

Source: Anne of Windy Poplars

“Him: “Have you ever been married before?” Me: “No.” Him: “Why?” Me: “I guess I’ve focused more on my work.” Him: “What do you do?” Me: (bracing myself) “I’m a psychologist.” Him: “Are you analyzing me now?” Me: (Yep, he went there. How cliché.) “Are you paying me now?”

Humor Marriage Psychology Dating Psychologist Speed Dating

Book:Low Water

Source: Low Water

“I found myself wondering if I could fall back in love with my husband. Oh, I loved him in the way of two people keeping each other’s darkest secrets.”

Marriage

Book:The Sleeping Sisters: A Novel

Source: The Sleeping Sisters: A Novel

“Why must love erase her surname, why must birth deny her throne – she is the one who forms existence, yet there’s nothing she can call her own!”

Marriage Wife Feminism Feminist Motherhood Women Empowerment Womens Rights Gender Equality Gender Bias Wife Material

Book:Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If I'd learned anything from my parents' fucked-up marriage, it was that making the other person think they're in control when they're really not is often the easiest way to win a fight.”

Fighting Marriage Conflict Manipulation Fucked Up Winning An Argument

Book:Best Offer Wins

Source: Best Offer Wins

“In marriage, it’s not about winning, it’s about participating.”

Love Humor Funny Marriage Wife Husband Winner Irony Aphorism Participant

Book:Yet Another New Land

Source: Yet Another New Land

“Here too was an unintended consequence of sibling marriage: For better or worse, it put a premium on Ptolemaic princesses. In every respect the equals of their brothers and husbands, Cleopatra's female predecessors knew their worth. They came increasingly to assert themselves.”

Marriage Power Dominance Equals

Book:Cleopatra: A Life

Source: Cleopatra: A Life

“Rosamond’s discontent in her marriage was due to the conditions of marriage itself, to its demand for self-suppression and tolerance, and not to the nature of her husband; but the easy conception of an unreal Better had a sentimental charm which diverted her ennui. She constructed a little romance which was to vary the flatness of her life: Will Ladislaw was always to be a bachelor and live near her, always to be at her command, and have an understood though never fully expressed passion for her, which would be sending out lambent flames every now and then in interesting scenes.”

Love Humor Marriage Illusion Flirting

Book:Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

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