Habits Quote by Sarah Waters

“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.”

— Kate Chopin

“It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood with salts…

— Jane Austen

“Helen worked in her back garden, planting her tulip and crocus bulbs. Her irritation with the world had dampened into a cushion of soft…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Oh, she loved weddings and longed for the day she would have her own. The day when she would be kissed like that by…

— J.B. McGee

“Remember, my dear Evelina, nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle…

— Fanny Burney

“She could go peacefully to the place where there were eternal picnics on sun-soaked riverbanks, and all the handsome soldiers asked for her hand.”

— Bella Forrest

“And so we are like flowers; and bloom only, when the sun, kisses us.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Brides never fare well in stories. Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.”

— Carmen Maria Machado

“As for Diana . . . sometimes I think the kindest thing I could do for my sister is ruin her chances of making…

— Tessa Dare

“I'd call it a brilliant success. All those journalists are going to be so disappointed when they find out they missed it." "They'll still…

— Marissa Meyer

“Not Diana herself, although this was more of a Venus after all, could have done a graceful thing more gracefully. ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Brides, nymphs were called, but that is not really how the world saw us. We were an endless feast laid out upon a table,…

— Circe Madeline Miller