Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.

I am delighted by how much I enjoy being married.

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.

I don't think you understand what levels or what fears until you have a child of your own. I mean, I've never loved someone so much and I've never been so afraid in my life. And the truth is I would kill someone, whoever tried to hurt him. I would. I have no doubt about it.

True love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years and years of commitment and being together and hanging in there building a history? And how do you find both?

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.

Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.

And I'll tell ya, I'm really enjoying this marriage thing. You think about each other. You care about each other. It's wonderful! Plus, I love saying 'my wife.' Once I started saying it, I couldn't stop - 'my wife' this, 'my wife' that...it's an amazing way to begin a sentence.

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.

Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

I love you more than I think I should.

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.