Wedding
Quotes - Whenever you keep score in love, you lose
“I
would that I could have stopped time and preserved that day forever. It was a
perfect day. There was the shadow of sorrow, yes. It would always be there. But
that was the nature of life. The bright mirror and the dark, reflecting one
another. And today there was so much brightness.”
―
Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Mercy
“Are
you sure about that he called off the wedding, Jolene? Sometimes Zeb misspells
stuff in e-mails, and it comes across badly.”
―
Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men
“All
the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained.
The Stark colors. Theon did not know whether he ought to find that ominous or
reassuring. Even the sky was grey. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and
brown and full of fear. ”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“What
in the world is this abomination?”
Lissa,
only slightly more tactful, asked, “Adrian, is this some kind of joke?”
―
Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows
“The
thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of
marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day -
and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.”
―
Susan Waggoner, I do! I do!: The Origins of 100 Classic Wedding Traditions
“Finding
out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as
discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“White
is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity.
White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity
of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.”
―
Tae Yun Kim, The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy
“Wooing,
wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the
first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the
wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then
comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and
faster, till he sink into his grave.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Your
wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how
greatly you desire it. I think that moment of doubt and faintness comes from
all those imagined and now impossible futures all pressing in on you at once.
It is your last chance to experience them, you see, and they all want to be
lived at that moment.”
―
Sharon Shinn, Jenna Starborn
“What
a terrifyingly beautiful thought that you are the beginning of forever.
I
love you, and life for me has just begun.”
―
Kamand Kojouri
“Whenever
you keep score in love, you lose.”
―
Kamand Kojouri
“The
world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd
get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching a bride walk down the aisle -
moments as eternal and full of love as the lifting of veils, the saying of vows
and the moment of the first wedded kiss.”
―
Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
“Up
then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;
Thyself
from thine affection
Takest
warmth enough, and from thine eye
All
lesser birds will take their jollity.
Up,
up, fair bride, and call
Thy
stars from out their several boxes, take
Thy
rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make
Thyself
a constellation of them all;
And
by their blazing signify
That
a great princess falls, but doth not die.
Be
thou a new star, that to us portends
Ends
of much wonder; and be thou those ends.”
―
John Donne, The Complete English Poems
“Like
most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no
further.”
―
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Here
lies a she sun, and a he moon there;
She
gives the best light to his sphere;
Or
each is both, and all, and so
They
unto one another nothing owe;
And
yet they do, but are
So
just and rich in that coin which they pay,
That
neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay;
Neither
desires to be spared nor to spare.
They
quickly pay their debt, and then
Take
no acquittances, but pay again;
They
pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall
No
such occasion to be liberal.
More
truth, more courage in these two do shine,
Than
all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.”
―
John Donne, The Complete English Poems
“My
love has placed her little hand
With
noble faith in mine,
And
vowed that wedlock's sacred band
Our
nature shall entwine.
My
love has sworn, with sealing kiss,
With
me to live -- to die;
I
have at last my nameless bliss:
As I
love -- loved am I!”
―
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“The
only person that should wear your ring is the one person that would never…
1.
Ask you to remain silent and look the other way while they hurt another.
2.
Jeopardize your future by taking risks that could potentially ruin your
finances or reputation.
3.
Teach your children that hurting others is okay because God loves them more.
God didn’t ask you to keep your family together at the expense of doing evil to
others.
4.
Uses religious guilt to control you, while they are doing unreligious things.
5.
Doesn't believe their actions have long lasting repercussions that could affect
other people negatively.
6.
Reminds you of your faults, but justifies their own.
7.
Uses the kids to manipulate you into believing you are nothing. As if to
suggest, you couldn’t leave the relationship and establish a better Christian
marriage with someone that doesn’t do these things. Thus, making you believe
God hates all the divorced people and will abandon you by not bringing someone
better to your life, after you decide to leave. As if!
8.
They humiliate you online and in their inner circle. They let their friends,
family and world know your transgressions.
9.
They tell you no marriage is perfect and you are not trying, yet they are the
one that has stirred up more drama through their insecurities.
10.
They say they are sorry, but they don’t show proof through restoring what they
have done.
11.
They don’t make you a better person because you are miserable. They have only
made you a victim or a bitter survivor because of their need for control over
you.
12.
Their version of success comes at the cost of stepping on others.
13.
They make your marriage a public event, in order for you to prove your love
online for them.
14.
They lie, but their lies are often justified.
15.
You constantly have to start over and over and over with them, as if a
connection could be grown and love restored through a honeymoon phase, or
constant parental supervision of one another’s down falls.
16.
They tell you that they don’t care about anyone other than who they love.
However, their actions don’t show they love you, rather their love has become
bitter insecurity disguised in statements such as, “Look what I did for us.
This is how much I care.”
17.
They tell you who you can interact with and who you can’t.
18.
They believe the outside world is to blame for their unhappiness.
19.
They brought you to a point of improvement, but no longer have your respect.
20.
They don't make you feel anything, but regret. You know in your heart you
settled.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
