Marriage Quote by Graham Robb

“She was a Victorian girl; a girl of the days when men were hard and top-hatted and masculine and ruthless and girls were gentle…

— Angela Carter

“For a moment, after years of scamping, she felt the dread power of wifehood; they were locked in each other’s grasp till the end—the…

— Christina Stead

“They knew so well how it felt, that they kept one bed in the boys' room, and any man who came at dusk got…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“By the end, she cleaned the house so much that she had dust in her eyes and her throat, her knees were scrapped a…

— Prerna Varma

“She knew how to hit to a hair's breadth that moment of evening when the light and the darkness are so evenly balanced that…

— Thomas Hardy

“Sick of body, unable to rise up, vehemently intoxicated without wine . . . And it is as though she who visits me were…

— Al-Mutanabbī

“The fears of the night shall be washed by the dawn.”

— Timothy Bax

“There is a willow grows aslant the brook that shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; therewith fantastic garlands did she make of…

— William Shakespeare

“And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They…

— Toni Morrison

“In her imagination she was somewhere dry and sunbaked, with a drink in her hand and the smell of cut flowers close by, filling…

— Mark Greaney

“Still, the baths helped ease her pain to some degree, the darkness around her, calling her closer to that day, but she knew it…

— Kristin Elyon

“In the darkness of the forest he saw her, and whispered her name, Melusina, and at that summoning she rose out of the water…

— Philippa Gregory