There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.
My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.
I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway.
The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.
They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
