Cousin Couple

A cousin couple is a pair of cousins who are involved in a romantic or sexual relationship.

Main articles: Cousin marriage and List of coupled cousins

Famous quotes containing the words cousin and/or couple:

    “I against my brother
    I and my brother against our cousin
    I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors
    All of us against the foreigner.”
    —Bedouin Proverb. Quoted by Bruce Chatwin in “From the Notebooks,” ch. 30, The Songlines (1987)

    “If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.”
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)