proposal

Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

We may propose many plans, let's but remember that God can dispose our plans, propose a new and better ones and impose them on us!

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

Young man, the fact that she did not accept your proposal for a relationship does not define why you should hate her. She may not become your BRIDE, but she can be the BRIDGE you have to cross to the other side with your dreams!

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people__ opinions and/or expectations.

Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

You have something else of mine, Miss Wakefield,_ he amended. __ believe you meant to borrow it and return it directly, but you never did return ._._. my heart. It__ been in your possession since our first meeting.__he drew in a staggered breath, daring to hope.__hough without a heart, one might wonder how I came to be here, standing before you right now,_ he went on, making her heard spin again. __o you wonder, Miss Wakefield?__hen she nodded, he grinned and placed her hand over his chest.__here is a heart in here, but it is not mine. You see, I believe you made a dire mistake our first meeting. When you meant to return mine, instead you gave me yours. Doesn__ it beat strangely beneath my breast?

Would you like to become my wife?""Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!

I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, true daughter of Mars, the God of War, promise herself in marriage to John Carter, Gentleman of Virginia.

To him, she was one of the few girls who was nice to him, the stodgy son of a poor alcoholic shoemaker with such little status that he seemed unlikely to even get one wife, let alone the three or more that designated a man of standing.

When she found a place of her ownand packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and quoted in his ear,"He married a woman to stop her getting away, Now she__ there all day.

I'd be staring at you and thinking, I should ask, I should ask, I should ask; do you want to be in a stable monogamous relationship for the rest of your life?

Mendanbar took a deep breath. __ou could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me._ This wasn__ coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, __s Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.___ould you, really?___es,_ Mendanbar said, looking down. __ love you, and__nd____nd you should have said that to begin with,_ Cimorene interrupted, putting her arms around him.Mendanbar looked up, and the expression on her face made his heart begin to pound.__ust to be sure I have this right,_ Cimorene went on with a blinding smile, __id you just ask me to marry you?___es,_ Mendanbar said. __t least, that__ what I meant.___ood. I will.__endanbar tried to find something to say, but he was too happy to think. He leaned forward two inches and kissed Cimorene, and discovered that he didn__ need to say anything at all.

Marry me, Kiara,_ he blurts out in front of everyone.__hy?_ she asks, challenging him.__ecause I love you,_ he says, walking up to her and bending down on one knee while he takes her hand in his, __nd I want to go to sleep with you every night and wake up seein_ your face every mornin_, I want you to be the mother of my children, I want to fix cars with you and eat your crappy tofu tacos that you think are Mexican. I want to climb mountains with you and be challenged by you, I want to argue with you just so we can have crazy hot makeup sex. Marry me, because without you I__ be six feet under _ and because I love your family like they__e my own _ and because you__e my best friend and I want to grow old with you._ He starts tearing up, and it__ shocking because I__e never seen him cry. __arry me, Kiara Westford, because when I got shot the only thing I was thinkin_ about was comin_ back here and makin_ you my wife. Say yes, chica.

Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.