Arranged Marriage Quotes

It's time to undo Rahim.

What happened tonight won't change a thing.""You're mistaken, Lila. Everything started changing the moment we met.

Stephanie Witter

Her voice was erudite, interesting; the voice of someone who straddled two cultures with a surety and style that I wished my boyfriend could find. She was smart, funny, and, above all, completely capable of controlling her life and what happened to it.

That single moment's intensity hasn't been matched in my life before or since. A woman I didn't know had chosen to accept me, in body and mind. Perhaps it is this instant that forms the basis of traditional marriage—a complete stranger is suddenly mine. And then, I am hers, too; I must offer her my all. I want her to wield her power over me as an acknowledgment of my love. The rush of those feelings all at once is too much to describe. Language communicates in terms of what is already known; it chokes up when asked to deal with the entirely unprecedented.

I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.