Marriage Quote by Deborah Heiligman

“We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie”

— Deborah Heiligman

“When Charles Darwin was trying to decide whether he should propose to his cousin Emma Wedgwood, he got out a pencil and paper and…

— Brian Christian

“You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles”

— Deborah Heiligman

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.”

— Jane Austen

“Everything in his life backfired. First that rocket at Waterloo. Then his engagement. Now this whole blasted arrangement with Emma. Despite the supposedly impersonal…

— Tessa Dare

“Mother shook her head impatiently. 'You need to...stop looking for heroes, Anne.' Her speech was slow, slurred, but understandable. 'Only the weak need...heroes...and heroes…

— Melanie Benjamin

“More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma”

— Deborah Heiligman

“Her tears fell abundantly—but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes—and she listened…

— Jane Austen

“Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.”

— Fay Weldon

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her…

— Carol Lee

“Then, with the gladness which must be felt, nay, which he did not scruple to feel, having never believed Frank Churchill to be at…

— Jane Austen