The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Quotations
Marriage
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-George Bernard Shaw
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%. This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones.
-Jarod Kintz "This Book Has No Title"
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.
-Gayle G. Roper
"Shadows on the Sand: A Seaside Mystery"
