Eloping Quotes

“As he read the long poem, I began thinking that, unlike him, I had always found a way to avoid counting the days. We were leaving in three days—and then whatever I had with Oliver was destined to go up in thin air. We had talked about meeting in the States, and we had talked of writing and speaking by phone—but the whole thing had a mysteriously surreal quality kept intentionally opaque by both of us—not because we wanted to allow events to catch us unprepared so that we might blame circumstances and not ourselves, but because by not planning to keep things alive, we were avoiding the prospect that they might ever die. We had come to Rome in the same spirit of avoidance: Rome was a final bash before school and travel took us away, just a way of putting things off and extending the party long past closing time. Perhaps, without thinking, we had taken more than a brief vacation; we were eloping together with return-trip tickets to separate destinations.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“At that, Marty howled great big, messy sobs, and Elanor, the little lady in the yellow suit, who organized the weddings at the church, came running with a box of tissue.
Oz appeared in the vestibule, looking alarmed. “Is everything all right? I thought someone was strangling a duck.”
“Do you mind?” Marty snapped. “Me and the bride, here, we’re having a moment.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Vanilla Beaned

“I’m so sorry, I’m trying to keep your family from putting a hit on Tate if he elopes with the prodigal daughter.”
“They wouldn't,” Tate said. “They love me.”
“Not that much they don’t,” Mel said”
― Jenn McKinlay, Vanilla Beaned

“I’m going to marry him.”
“When we get back to Arizona,” Mel said. “Not here. Your parents would skin you alive and you know it.”
“But eloping is so romantic,” Angie protested. “We could go home as Mr. and Mrs. Tate Harper.”
“It won’t be romantic when your brothers string Tate up like a piñata and smack the candy out of him,” Mel said. “And you know they will.”
― Jenn McKinlay, Vanilla Beaned