Quote by Kristin Cashore

“Garan, in addition to being guarded, was rather unfriendly. He seemed to make a point of not asking Fire the usual civil questions, such…

— Kristin Cashore

“No. We were jealous that Lirah had Gargarin. Cold, cold Lirah, who was bitter towards all men, loved my brother with all her heart.…

— Melina Marchetta

“Her feelings about marriage were . . . fanciful and unrealistic.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“These characters might not have wed, but their lack of husbands constrained and defined them, just as surely as marriage would have. They”

— Rebecca Traister

“She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she now therefore nothing to do but to…

— Jane Austen

“Wedding was quiet and small, home they shared was soulless, their food bland. Sarla and her husband felt like guests in that home rather…

— Shilpi Somaya Gowda

“In spite of Stepan Arkadyevitch's efforts to be an attentive father and husband, he never could keep in his mind that he had a…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Miranda Neville

“In psychological terms, he was neurotic and she was uncommonly sane. His inevitable eruptions would not threaten the marriage, because she was the center…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Under the Sumerians the wife could not obtain a divorce at all, and the penalty for denying her husband was death.”

— Leonard William King

“She was old to know that marriages were like children. They had lives of their own and didn't necessarily act the way you thought…

— Rebecca Flowers

“And what really struck me was that the woman still meant so much to Grandad after all of those years. She burned in his…

— Kirsty Eagar