Brides Quotes - Page 11

• I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Hair, Way, Scene

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• The Fomorians skittered backward, away from me, looking justifiably confused. I mean, really, how many human women actually run to them? And I was a human woman covered in swamp yuck, with wild red hair sticking out in matted hunks and arms flailing like a demented Bride of Frankenstein. I'd run from me.

  P. C. Cast

  Running, Confused, Mean

  P.C. Cast (2006). “Divine By Mistake”, p.637, LUNA

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• Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild.

  Patricia Briggs

  Ideas, Looks, Fae

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• Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Men, Jewels, Kingdoms

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.170, Faber & Faber

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• It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out immediately after the arrival of each present and are not in the handwriting of the bride's mother.

  Judith Martin

  Mother, Writing, Letters

  Jacobina Martin, Judith Martin (2010). “Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding”, p.242, W. W. Norton & Company

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• White for Shadowhunters is the color of funerals," Luke explained. “ But for mundanes, Jace, it’ s the color of weddings. Brides wear white to symbolize their purity.” “I thought Jocelyn said her dress wasn’t white,” Simon said. “Well,” said Jace, “I suppose that ship has sailed.” Luke choked on his coffee.

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Color, White

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1371, Simon and Schuster

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• Now what?” Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?” Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,” he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.

  David Eddings

  Arms, Majesty, Beloved

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• Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Nature’s wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It’s been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more.

  Tony Hoagland

  Beer, Clothes, Clouds

  Tony Hoagland, “A Color of the Sky”

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• And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Fall, Kissing, Tears

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.292, Delphi Classics

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• The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride and groom. It was a kiss between a man and his wife, and when it was over, the king closed his eyes and rested his forehead in the hollow of the queen's shoulder, like a man seeking respite, like a man reaching home at the end of the day.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Queens, Home

  "The King of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, 2006.

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• In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Home, Doors, Wheels

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2012). “Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays”, p.37, tredition

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• 'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?'

  Charlotte Bronte

  Will You Marry Me, Rochester, Equal

  "Jane Eyre".

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• [At the reception following her remarriage to Alan Campbell:] People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today - including the bride and groom.

  Dorothy Parker

  Years, People, Today

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• A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

  Proclus

  Philosophy, Needs, Philosopher

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• When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Husband, Father, Lovers

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

  Gwen Stefani

  Wedding, Growing Up, School

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• The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Beautiful, Summer, Home

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• A bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.

  Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

  Mother, Law, Bullied

  "The Story of Spin" by Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, translated by Takeshi Oka, University of Chicago Press, (p. 217), 1997.

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• Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Fall, Taken

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

  Mary Oliver

  Attention, World, Want

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

  Bob Goff

  Thinking, Church, Fists

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• A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

  Honore de Balzac

  Wedding, Flower, Wife

  "Honorine". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1845.

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• I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Texas, Land

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Because I'm the only performer who comes out and says I've had plastic surgery, I've become the plastic surgery poster girl, which is hilarious, because everybody has done it and they all deny it. They stand there, like the Bride of Frankenstein, they've all got stitches, and they all say, 'I've done nothing.' I talk about it.

  Joan Rivers

  Girl, Stitches, Done

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• The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.

  Minna Antrim

  Love, Marriage, Morning

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