Quotes about Bond

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most.

Being here with him is safety; it's a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside.

When we marry, we are authorized to take possession of the other person, body and soul.

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

Oh, you dear good father! cried Mary, putting her hands round her father's neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to be caressed. I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world! Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better. Impossible, said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

In their death they were not divided.

The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.

Speculative truth begins to appear but a shadow of individual minds, agreement between intellects seems unattainable, and we turn to the truth of feeling as the only universal bond of union.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.