"Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna leave me now, no matter what happens, You are mine, always, if ye will it or no, if ye want me or n..."
- Diana Gabaldon
"Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit." - Ash"
- Julie Kagawa
"How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the k..."
- George R.R. Martin
"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."
- Criss Jami
"Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwelt upon the subject; ..."
- Théophile Gautier
"When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that literally. Silly me."
- Melody Lee
"The sun still lives his silent vows to the moon, by bowing to kiss her feet whenever she walks in the room."
- Curtis Tyrone Jones
"Some people would not have remained with their partners, if the unfortunate things that have happened to them had happened to their partners, or if the fortunate things that have happened to their par..."
"Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them)."