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#1

“It was against all scientific reason for two people who hardly knew each other, with no ties at all between them, with different characters, different upbringings, and even different genders, to suddenly find themselves committed to living together, to sleeping in the same bed, to sharing two destinies that perhaps were fated to go in opposite directions.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: arranged-marriage, marriage

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#2

“Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.”
― Amit Kalantri

tags: amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-proverb, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, arranged-marriage, arranged-marriages, dance, divorce, engagement, engagement-and-wedding-rings, engagement-ring, fighting, first-night, husband, india, indian-authors, indian-wedding, inspirational-quotes, kick-boxing, love, love-story, marriage, marriage-advice, marriage-fights, marriage-proposal, married-life, matrimony, motivational-quotes, philosophy, romance, salsa, salsa-dance, separation, shaadi, shadi, together, unity, valentine-s-day, wedding, wife, wisdom, wives

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#4

“That single moment's intensity hasn't been matched in my life before or since. A woman I didn't know had chosen to accept me, in body and mind. Perhaps it is this instant that forms the basis of traditional marriage—a complete stranger is suddenly mine. And then, I am hers, too; I must offer her my all. I want her to wield her power over me as an acknowledgment of my love. The rush of those feelings all at once is too much to describe. Language communicates in terms of what is already known; it chokes up when asked to deal with the entirely unprecedented.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

tags: arranged-marriage, falling-in-love, intimacy, marriage

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#5

“I once asked her if she was happy. “That depends on what I am able to get done today,” she said, laughing. She told me that the completion of her daily tasks was the only thing she felt she had control over. They were a form of meditation, of salve. Kept busy, she had no time to ruminate and no time for opinions, certainly not feminist ones. I pressed her: “I mean, are you happy with your life, Rajima?” “I don’t know,” she said uncomfortably, as if she’d never really considered such a question. “When there is little you can do, you do what you can.” Happiness for my grandmother seemed to be a verb rather than a noun. She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could.”
― Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

tags: arranged-marriage, feminism, traditional-female-roles, women-s-rights

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#6

“I do not care about power and wealth, father. I want to marry for love.”

“You want to marry for love?” The elder Valentino scoffed. “Que mierda. Marrying for love is like adding extra picante to your meal. It may seem like a good idea at the time, but your stomach will curse you for it with ulcers in the end.”
― Felix Alexander, The Last Valentine

tags: arranged-marriage, betrothal, bussiness, love, marriage, marry, marrying, marrying-for-love, power, true-love, wealth

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#7

“Okay, okay. I can do this, I can do this just breathe. Mentally I prepared myself but it didn't help with the feeling of jumping off a cliff deep in my belly.”
― AJ. Young, My Mate The Monster

tags: arranged-marriage, humor, scared

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#8

“Had my father loved my mother? He never spoke of her. I always imagined a traditional marriage between them--one built with the strong bones of respect, but stripped of the soft skin of love.”
― Kay Honeyman, The Fire Horse Girl

tags: arranged-marriage, chinese-culture, love, traditionalism

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#9

“Nina could defend arranged marriages in her sleep, she had been asked about them so often. To her horror, she had even begun to sound like her mother.”
― Manju Kapur

tags: arranged-marriage

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#10

“I'm going to own your body, Lila, because you f*cking own mine.”
― Stephanie Witter, Be A Doll

tags: arranged-marriage, billionaire-erotica, billionaire-romance, business-man, carter-manor, contemporary-romance, drama, standalone, strong-woman

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#11

“[J]e t'ai dressée à te soumettre, de même qu'une fleur subit le soleil et la pluie.”
― Pearl Buck

tags: arranged-marriage, sexism, submission

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#12

“Ton père et le sien, en amis fraternels, jurèrent de s'unir par leurs enfants. Ton fiancé avait alors six ans. Tu naquis dans le cercle de cette année-là. Telle était ta destinée. Tu fus élevée dans ce dessein.”
― Pearl Buck

tags: arranged-marriage, sexism

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#13

“Nafsha is so concerned with my virginity. I am beginning to think she would wed me herself. Alas, the only tool she might use to make me a woman is her tongue -- and it is far too sharp for me to allow it beneath my skirts.”
― Libbie Hawker, Daughter of Sand and Stone

tags: arranged-marriage, indignation, libbie-hawker, marriage, nafsha, skirts, smackdown, tongue-in-cheek, zenobia

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#14

“I always thought that what Rajima did with those cast-off peels was a metaphor for how she dealt with her arranged marriage. She transformed those peels, with palm sugar for sweetness and tamarind for tang, into something precious.”
― Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

tags: arranged-marriage, arranged-marriages, making-the-most, when-life-gives-you-lemons

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#15

“People should understand that compassionate love defines trustworthiness, attachment, and empathy when they live and interact with their romantic partners. However, they should make a commitment not to betray, deprive or stay distant with their life partner if they want to keep the relationship last for a lifetime.”
― Saaif Alam

tags: arranged-marriage, compassionate-love, love-marriage, trustworthiness

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#17

“What happened tonight won't change a thing."
"You're mistaken, Lila. Everything started changing the moment we met.”
― Stephanie Witter, Be A Doll

tags: arranged-marriage, billionaire, billionaire-erotica, billionaire-romance, contemporary, contemporary-romance, drama, standalone, strong-female-characters, strong-heroine, strong-woman

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#18

“We're supposed to be unable to keep our hands off of each other. We're supposed to tear each other's clothes off. I'm supposed to make you scream again and again all night long, Lila.”
― Stephanie Witter, Be A Doll

tags: arranged-marriage, billionaire, billionaire-erotica, billionaire-romance

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#19

“I'm not going to toy with you tonight. A kiss was more than I bargained for, but, little wife, that f*cking kiss is just the beginning. Tomorrow is a brand new day.”
― Stephanie Witter, Be A Doll

tags: arranged-marriage, billionaire-eroticanaire, billionaire-romance, contemporary-romance

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#20

“Sometimes a kiss was just a kiss.
Sometimes a kiss announced changes.
That time the kiss was my downfall.”
― Stephanie Witter, Be A Doll

tags: arranged-marriage, billionaire, billionaire-romance

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#21

“Mark my words, Lila. You'll be mine in all ways you can imagine.”
― Stephanie Witter, Be A Doll

tags: arranged-marriage, billionaire-romance, contemporary-romance-love-story

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#23

“It's time to undo Rahim.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

tags: arranged-marriage, boy, gender, gender-roles, girl, parenting, rahima, transgender

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#24

“I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.”
― Elizabeth Wein, The Pearl Thief

tags: adulthood, adulting, arranged-marriage, bisexual-characters, julie, lgbtqia-characters, marriage, running-away-from-home, the-pearl-thief

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#25

“But how can she get married to a stranger? Just because his resume checked on all the materialistic criteria, it cannot demand the commitment of a lifetime.”
― Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

tags: arranged-marriage, commitment-and-attitude, marriage-quotes, stranger

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#26

“In this case the time is not so important for me, the person asking for commitment is.”
― Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

tags: arranged-marriage, commitment-quotes, love-quotes, time-quotes

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#27

“Do couples in arranged marriage actually fall in love ; or is it mere compatibility ?”
― Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

tags: arranged-marriage, compatibility, couples, love-quotes

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#28

“Marriage is a marriage- love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment.”
― Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

tags: arranged-marriage, commitment, love-marriage, marriage-quotes

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#29

“I wonder if the story (though not intended as such by my aunt) is a warning for me, a preview of my own life which I thought I had fashioned so cleverly, so differently from my mother's, but which is only a repetition, in a different raga, of her tragic song. Perhaps it is like this for all daughters, doomed to choose for ourselves, over and over, the men who have destroyed our mothers.”
― Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni

tags: arranged-marriage, india, indian-authors, indian-literature, the-maid-servant-s-story

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#30

“একটা ভুল মানুষকে হয়তো অনেক কাঁদায়, কিন্তু মনে রাখতে হবে জীবনে এমন কিছু ভুল আছে যা ভবিষ্যতে হাজারটা ভুল থেকে বাচায়”।”
― রেদোয়ান মাসুদ

tags: bengali

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#31

“পৃথিবীতে কঠিন বাস্তবের মধ্যে একটি বাস্তব হলোঃ
মানুষ যখন সাফল্যের দ্বারপ্রান্তে এসে পৌছায়
আর তখনই তার প্রিয় মানুষটি হারিয়ে যায়”।”
― রেদোয়ান মাসুদ

tags: bengali

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#32

“যে ভালোবাসার মাঝে হারানোর ভয় থাকে
আর সে কথা ভেবে দুজনেই কাঁদে
সে ভালোবাসা হচ্ছে প্রকৃত ভালোবাসা”।”
― রেদোয়ান মাসুদ, অপেক্ষা-২

tags: bangla, bengali, redwan-masud, redwan-masud-quotes

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#33

“পৃথিবীতে কেউ কারো নয়
শুধু সুখে থাকার আশায়
কাছে টানার ব্যার্থ প্রত্যয়
আর দূরে চলে যাওয়ার
এক বাস্তব অভিনয়”।”
― রেদোয়ান মাসুদ, অপেক্ষা-২

tags: bangla, bengali, redwan-masud

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