Arranged Marriages Quotes

“It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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

“Sad.” She lets out a bitter laugh. “Life is full of sadness. It’s part of being a woman. Our lives are lived for the sake of others. Our happiness is never factored in. Do I want this life? Living here and seeing my husband a few times a year, raising my daughter alone? I don’t know what it was like for you in America, but this is how life is. This is reality. But this advice is coming too late. It’s meaningless now.”
― Aisha Saeed, Written in the Stars

“There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“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

“There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel’s palm against her forehead. “A love marriage,” she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.”
― Nayomi Munaweera, Island of a Thousand Mirrors

“But Guidobaldo scoffed at his qualms

"Do you account my niece a peasant girl?" he asked. "Would you have her smirk and squirm at every piece of flattery you utter? So that she weds Your Highness what shall the rest signify?"

"I would that she loved me a little," complained Gian Maria foolishly.

Guidobaldo looked him over with an eye that smiled inscrutably, and it may have crossed his mind that this coarse white-faced Duke was too ambitious.”
― Rafael Sabatini

“Love and passion begat marriage in my world. Yet in my grandparents’ world, marriage began with practicality. My grandfather told me proudly of that day he first met my grandmother. He interviewed her, posing little riddles to test her common sense. “Supposing you have to take the children to school and you’re late and it’s supposed to rain,” he said. “Would you take a taxi or a bus?” My grandmother said, “Well, first I’d take an umbrella.” Ice cream in Central Park, this was not.”
― Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

“It is said that there is never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart. The shroud that covers this free spirit is woven by the complex threads of society.”
― Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

“Marriage is not a sales deal and you don't have to close it as fast as you can.”
― Swati Kumar, The Great Indian Dilemma

“don’t ask if you’re being forced into marriage
by your family
or even by the man you’re marrying
ask if you’re forcing yourself

ask your conscience if you’re being pressured by social media
if the pestering questions by relatives has gotten to you now
if seeing couples made you jealous
&made you believe that the way your life is wasn’t good enough”
― Xayaat Muhummed, The Breast Mountains Of All Time Are In Hargeisa

“Her father must have sifted through hundreds of marriage résumés to narrow the field down to these ten names. Ten men he thought would make her happy and treat her with kindness and respect, unlike Jonas and all the men she'd dated before him.
Layla had always considered herself a modern desi woman. She was as comfortable in a sari as she was in jeans and enjoyed hamburgers and potato chips as much as dal and curry. Her life revolved around Western friends and a large and extended family of immigrants from Northern India and Pakistan who had brought their culture and beliefs with them- one of which was the benefit of arranged marriage over the Western concept of love.
Despite Dev's wonderful relationship with Rhea and the success of her parents' union, Layla had never been interested in having an arranged marriage. Even after a string of failed relationships and heartbreak, she had always believed in true love. Her soul mate was out there waiting for her. All she had to do was open her eyes.”
― Sara Desai, The Marriage Game

“I married you to stop the bloodshed, and you keep killing. When will it be enough- when?”
― Sandra Worth, The Kings Daughter. A Novel of the First Tudor Queen