“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.” 
― Lois McMaster Bujold

“He shook his head in wonder. "You are magnificent." "I keep telling everyone that," she said with a nonchalant shrug, "But you seem to be the only one to believe me.” 
― Julia Quinn

“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.” 
― Honoré de Balzac

“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.  To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take…If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participation…It takes a lifetime to learn another person…When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.” 
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met. ” 
― Stephen Kendrick

“Be careful whom you choose to love. This decision will impact your future life and happiness in ways you cannot yet imagine.” 
― Toni Coleman

“In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight families, and they think it's funny. But what people don't think is so funny is when two middle-aged lawyers who are married to each other move in next door to you and your wife and they have adopted a Korean girl and they want to send her to school with your children and they want to socialize with you and share a drink over the backyard fence. That creeps people out, especially Christians. So, I don't think gay marriage is a conservative issue. I think it's a radical issue.” 
― Edmund White

“My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington” 
― Julia Quinn