Borders Quote by Lisa Kleypas

“Somehow the promise we had made on that piece of paper gave me more freedom than I’d ever known before. It allowed both of…

— Lisa Kleypas

I don't see the purpose of marriage...A piece of paper that gets few acknowledgements, a bunch of broken vows, and a lot of unhappiness.

— Anonymous

From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about…

— Aasif Mandvi

We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what…

— Jordan Peterson

For most of my life, I, like many Americans, had greeted the idea of an arranged marriage with a mixture of fascination and skepticism.

— Elizabeth Flock

Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down.…

— Shana Alexander

Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that.…

— Jared Harris

I'd realized then just how strong our connection was, how perfectly we understood each other. I'd been skeptical about people being soul mates in…

— Richelle Mead

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more…

— Edna Ferber

Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“And really, a formal ceremony and a piecce of paper wasn't what made a marriage. It was the feeling bursting apart my chest-the overwhelming…

— S.C. Stephens