“If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.” 
― Tamora Pierce

“Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart... It's sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.” 
― Julie Powell

“I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled my thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy. -Lukas Jessen-Petersen” 
― Paulo Coelho

“...marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together for life, not just because they experience deep love for each other, but because they believe that God loves each of them with an infinite love and has called them to each other to be living witnesses of that love. To love is to embody God's infinite love in a faithful communion with another human being.” 
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore

“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.” 
― Héloïse d'Argenteuil

“It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.” 
― Esther Perel