Gail Carson Levine Quotes

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

I'm about to turn 60, and most of my memories reside in the brain of my wife.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

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

Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true.

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.

Love at first sight is different when you're 32 than when you're 22. In your early 20s, you fall in love after three weeks.

We should not be worried about age when it comes to love and attraction.

Marriage is a sign of commitment between two people and something I always thought would happen when I was a kid.

I'm not building my life round not being able to bear the thought of being in my 60s and not having someone next to me when I wake up in the morning. That's not what drives me.

If you love someone and you choose to spend the rest of your life with that person, that's your partner in every way.

I'm going to marry you one day, you know." "Is that a promise?" "If you want it to be.

She pulled away. “I missed you, Percy.” Percy wanted to tell her the same thing, but it seemed too small a comment. While he had been on the Roman side, he’d kept himself alive almost solely by thinking of Annabeth. I missed you didn’t really cover that.

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?

Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21.

I've never made love to a ghost but I have made love to men who are a few years away from becoming a ghost.

Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death; Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago

There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.