husband and wife Quotes

“You’re a guy, you tell me,′ Elizabeth said. “Where would you have gone?′ ‘I hid in the basement once. But you don’t have a basement, do you?” ‘No, Jeffrey, we don’t,’ she said. ‘The house is on a rock. Most people don’t bother digging a basement into solid rock.”

Like most other young matrons, Meg began her married life with the determination to be a model housekeeper. John should find home a paradise, he should always see a smiling face, should fare sumptuously every day, and never know the loss of a button.

“You must give my love to him, and tell him, if I never see him again,” she turned away, and stood with her back to them for a moment, and then added, in a husky voice, “tell him to be as good as he can, and try and meet me in the kingdom of heaven.”

“O! Eliza, if these people only knew what a blessing it is for a man to feel that his wife and child belong to him!”

“It’s a pity Mr. Pontellier doesn’t stay home more in the evenings. I think you would be more—well, if you don’t mind my saying it—more united, if he did. ‘Oh! dear no!’ said Edna, with a blank look in her eyes. “What should I do if he stayed home? We wouldn’t have anything to say to each other.”