“Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.” 
― Anna Godbersen

“You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles” 
― Deborah Heiligman

“(On getting married at 19)  We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.” 
― Crystal Woods

“Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.” 
― André Maurois

“Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life” 
― Leo Tolstoy

“LOVE IS A FLOWER
Treat your relationship
As if you are growing
The most beautiful sacred flower.
Keep watering it,
Tend to the roots,
And always make sure
The petals are full of color
And are never curling.
Once you neglect your plant,
It will die,
As will your relationship.” 
― Suzy Kassem

“In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God alone can give, namely, perfect happiness. One of the reasons why so many marriages are shipwrecked is because as the young couple leave the altar, they fail to realize that human feelings tire and the enthusiasm of the honeymoon is not the same as the more solid happiness of enduring human love. One of the greatest trials of marriage is the absence of solitude. In the first moments of human love, one does not see the little hidden deformities which later on appear.” 
― Fulton J. Sheen

“I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.” 
― Brenda Perlin