Romance Quote by Rebecca Boucher — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?”

“You don't lose a partner you've been with for 30-odd years and just wake up one day with a smile.”

“He turned to her. “Didn’t you see the lightning strike the steeple?”

“I’m not sure I trust myself around you I liked you from the start, J.D. I really wish things had been different, that's all.”

“I never meant for you to see that.”

“When Charles Darwin was trying to decide whether he should propose to his cousin Emma Wedgwood, he got out a pencil and paper and weighed every possible consequence. In favor of marriage he listed children, companionship, and the 'charms of music and female chit-chat.' Against marriage he listed the 'terrible loss of time,' lack of freedom to go where he wished, the burden of visiting relatives, the expense and anxiety provoked by children, the concern that 'perhaps my wife won't like London,' and having less money to spend on books. Weighing one column against the other produced a narrow margin of victory, and at the bottom Darwin scrawled, 'Marry—Marry—Marry Q.E.D.' Quod erat demonstrandum, the mathematical sign-off that Darwin himself restated in English: 'It being proved necessary to Marry.”