A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature. - Edith Wharton
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. - Madeleine L'Engle
Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you. - J.R. Tompkins
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. - Cicero