#marriage

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."

"The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart."

"Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence."

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II"

"The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce."

"One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her."

"Marriage can wait, education cannot."

"Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t come, she supposed she must have been mistaken. And Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words “bliss,” “passion,” and “rapture” - words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books."

"Marriage is the death of hope."

"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)"

"But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach."

"When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle."

"A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage."

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."

"I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us...or they'll never be able to borrow our car."

"A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up."

"On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again."

"Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely."