#marriage

I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man."-Amy Elliot Dunne ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#gone-girl #head-over-heals #love #marriage #relationships

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#been #crappy #going #got #i

There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever. ↗

— Kristin Kimball

#happiness #marriage #food

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#husband #j-g-ballard #james-graham-ballard #jg-ballard #marriage

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is. ↗

— John Krasinski

#getting #going #guilty #how #i

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#marriage

If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#marriage

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#education #equals #exciting #field #fighting

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much. ↗

— Pat Travers

#had #i #lousy #marriage #much

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#before #ideas #marriage #perceived #relation