Kate Mosse Quotes

Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding back love and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then, usually, there was trouble.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

I think there's always a bit of pain in everything that's ecstatic - relationships and love, they always come with pain.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Pain is love.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

Absence - that common cure of love.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

The first time I fell in love, I was in my 20s, and I loved someone right till I was 31. And then I felt that emotion died within me. I wasn't feeling alive at all.

What most did not understand then was that I was not only married to the man I loved, but I was also married to the movement that I loved.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.