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“A young man married is a man that's marred.”
“Someone once said that marriage is like standing in a corridor lined with doors. You go off through your door, he goes through his, but at the end of the day you have to come back to the corridor, ...”
“I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I...”
“Taking up marriage is a good excuse for taking up cursing."These is my words”
“His eyes ignited into a color found only in the heart of the sun. Yes?Yes, already. Ill marry you. Yes. Hell, yes. What am I, stupid?”
“Well married, a man is wingedill-matched, he is shackled.”
“Not all marriages are made in heaven. Some, probably most, are constructed here on earth for any number of reason.”
“Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!”
“I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the ri...”
“He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often too quick to act: he would try never to crush her, never to overwhelm her or bend her to his will...”
“They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.”
“The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic...”
“Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. ... We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children ......”
“But a good wifea good unworldly womanmay really help a man, and keep him more independent.”
“Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.”
“Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.”
“Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.”
“...in response to whatever Alice was struggling with, whatever had caused her to withdraw from him, he had chosen the arms of another woman instead of relying on his own fortitude, as if he'd someh...”
“Divorce is just as contagious as Marriage.”
“We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.”
