Quote by Ruth Downie

“He considered telling her that she could, and often, if she married him.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“he already decided she was marrying him no matter what. Informing her that they were getting married was just a courtesy”

— R.L. Mathewson

“All of this was mine, simply for agreeing to marry a man I did not love but who was, in the end, the only…

— Melanie Benjamin

“It was a good thing that when it came to married men, she was a girl with a firm moral compass, or else she…

— Kiran Manral

“Still, she would not have married a man she knew full well did not love her, had there seemed any possible hope of a…

— Julie Klassen

“And although he had never thought a wife with strong opinions was a good thing, he actually found he liked her opinions—or at least…

— Melanie Dickerson

“A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a…

— Jane Austen

“She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“That was, perhaps, the most unfeeling proposal she could imagine. The man was cynical, insensitive, condescending, rude. And she was definitely going to marry…

— Tessa Dare

“The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.”

— Lorrie Moore

“Once, when our paths crossed, he told me that the kindest thing I’d ever done was to not marry him. Perhaps because he was…

— Lorraine Heath

“Never mind that it was not what she wanted. Never mind that there was so much left to see and learn and do. She’d…

— Renee Ahdieh