Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile.
-Helen Hollick
"The Kingmaking"
Quotations
Marriage
If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain and instead seeing a person's soul.
-Shannon L. Alder
"300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before marriage"
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Scarlet Letter"
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
