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“Friend I can deal with. Friend. Girlfriend. Sweetheart. Fiancée. (...) Wife, even. I think I can deal with wife. Wives are at home, that's the good thing about them. They're at home, they're silent (...) Lover, I cannot deal with. Lover is different.”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“It was never very easy to reach her, like loving someone who was rarely in the same room”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Last Night in Montreal

“I feel a guard's hand close on my arm. Then Cardan's voice comes. 'Do not touch her.'

A terrible silence follows. I wait for him to pronounce judgement on me. Whatever he commands will be done. His power is absolute. I don't even have the strength to fight back.

'Whatever can you mean?' Randalin says. 'She's-'

'She is my wife,' Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. 'The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.'

The shocked roar of the crowd rolls around me, but none of them are more shocked than I am. I try to open my eyes, try to sit up, but darkness crowds in at the edges of my vision and drags me under.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Before you get jealous of her best friend,
be your wife's best friend yourself.”
― Augusto Branco

“It's not a lack of love, but a lack of spiritual qualities, that ruin relationships.”
― Shannon L. Alder, The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible: Spiritual Recovery from Narcissistic and Emotional Abuse

“Even if we married, I might always be second fiddle to his cello, his mistress as he devoted himself more to his music.”
― Valentine Glass, The Temptation of Eden

“The country was as much of a mystery to me as the man I had married.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“When a wife downplay respect for the husband and the husband takes love lightly for his wife, the couple becomes housemates, they just continue to exist together in the same space waiting for a strong reason to ultimately seperate.”
― Khuliso Mamathoni, The Greatest Proposal

“...three jobs: keep a fine house, organize an enviable social calendar, and be a tiger in the bedroom.”
― Brooke Lea Foster, Summer Darlings

“I quickly turned around and looked at Ravi but his eyes were quicker as they averted mine. I can’t expect any help from him today. Tomorrow, he will get me flowers. Tomorrow, he will apologize. Tomorrow, he will engulf me in his bear hug that never failed to make me feel warm and safe. But today, he is completely useless. Today, I am alone. Today, he needs to pacify her so tomorrow he can love me again. That is if I can keep myself alive till tomorrow.”
― Arushi Raj, Mrs Sehgal

“The wife belongs to a book club. All they do is moan about their husbands. They never talk about the bloody books at all.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Crossing Places

“Stop giving yourself away then telling us you ”lost�� yourself. It doesn’t work that way. Your hands are big enough to hold on to you AND grab the new things you love.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“[M]an is the head of a woman in exactly the same way that Christ is the head of the Church.' Ephesians Chapter 5, Verse 23. The husband is to sacrifice himself for the wife. He was the head by dying, sacrificing Himself and pouring put His blood. The headship is based on self-forgetfulness for the sake of the beloved.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Life Is Worth Living

“Normal problems happen between husband and wife, but when surrouning involved hundreds of big problems will be created.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The problem to end all problems is that it's quite easy to find a man who's ready to die in battle, for an ideal, for glory, maybe even his favorite soccer team in some cases. But it is extremely difficult to find a man wedded to the idea of dying for his family, for his wife and children, for an apparently banal daily life; yet the truth is that this would be the most heroic act you could ever imagine. It's not the grand gesture of one moment in time but rather a martyrdom -- a long, constant, and incredibly fruitful martyrdom. It's difficult for a man to see the beauty in this daily sacrifice, often made up of a series of burdens, annoyances, frustrations, and setbacks. Only by stepping back and seeing things from a different, even eternal, perspective does the messy wall become a brave and definitive bas relief -- a work of art.”
― Costanza Miriano, Sposala e muori per lei. Uomini veri per donne senza paura

“We are to be productive, but the ideal way for that is to do it at a steady, calm pace. This is a mysterious sort of way. It is keeping busy in an almost romantic way. It is determined, but tender. It is cheerful and pleasant, and produces lovely things in the heart and life.”
― Mrs. Sharon White

“The stars and cosmos abandoned Napoleon when he abandoned Josephine. There is a universal cosmic law that there can only be one Spiritual Wife for each Master or Cosmic Hero. If he abandons his Spiritual Wife, the stars and cosmos will abandon him.”
― Miguel Serrano

“Before you get jealous of her best friend,
be yourself your wife's best friend.”
― Augusto Branco

“Be happy with the wife of your youth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is a small world. I saw my husband three time at home today.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“If you are not a gift for your wife, you may become a gift.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“A father's greatest gift to his children is choosing to love their mother during the worst of times, not just the best.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer

“I shouldn’t dream of marrying anyone unless I was madly in love with him. And of course there is really nothing a woman enjoys so much as doing all the things she doesn’t like for the sake of someone she does like. And the more self-willed she is, the more she likes it.��

‘I’m afraid I disagree with you. The boot is on the other leg as a rule.�� He spoke with a slight sneer.

‘Exactly,�� I cried eagerly. ‘And that’s why there are so many unhappy marriages. It’s all the fault of the men. Either they give way to their women–and then the women despise them–or else they are utterly selfish, insist on their own way and never say “thank you��. Successful husbands make their wives do just what they want, and then make a frightful fuss of them for doing it. Women like to be mastered, but they hate not to have their sacrifices appreciated. On the other hand, men don’t really appreciate women who are nice to them all the time. When I am married, I shall be a devil most of the time, but every now and then, when my husband least expects it, I shall show him what a perfect angel I can be.��

Harry laughed outright.

‘What a cat-and-dog life you will lead!”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit

“The husband caught a goldfish, but his wife found out.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“There is no winner in marriage. All that matters is the courage to participate”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Women come and go. The wives stay.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“My husband and I celebrated World Marriage Day. Thanks God it was not a year.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Happiness knocks on her door every time her husband is not at home.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Democracy appeared when God created Eve and told Adam to choose a wife.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“We want submissive wives and dominant daughters without realizing that every wife is someone's daughter.”
― Anupam S Shlok