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Marriage Quotes by Gillian Flynn

50 Marriage quotes by Gillian Flynn

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One quote shows a husband trying to make his wife laugh, while another warns that showing your true self can start hate. The collection also mentions marital infidelity and how a spouse can become the muse for a painful story. Humor and hurt both appear.

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“You don’t ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker.”

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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

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“One should never marry a man who doesn't own a decent set of scissors.”

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“My husband is the most loyal man on the planet until he’s not.”

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“To be kissed on the lips by your husband is the most decadent thing.”

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“You're a man who cheats on his wife, you can't ever undo that.”

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I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage.

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“I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me.”

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“It's so strange to think: A year ago today, I was undoing my husband. Now I am almost done reassembling him.”

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“It’s a very female thing, isn’t it, to take one boys’ night and snowball it into a marital infidelity that will destroy…

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“Marriage is compromise and hard work,and then more hard work and communication and compromise. And then work. Abandon all hope, ye who…

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I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned…

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“It was about the worst outcome possible for my competitive wife: a town of contented also-rans.”

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“One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to…

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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

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“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”

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“What are you thinking, Amy? The question I’ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the…

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“You don't ever want to be the wife who keeps her husband from playing poker - you don't ever want to be…

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“I have a dash of ADD, and I’ve always found my wife a bit dazzling, in the purest sense of the word:…

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“I think, immediately, that there is something wrong with us, perhaps unfixable, if my husband wouldn't think to tell me this. Sometimes…

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The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in…

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“It's not easy, pairing yourself off with someone forever. It's an admirable thing, and I'm glad you're both doing it, but, boy-oh-girl-oh,…

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“Soul mates. They really call themselves that, which makes sense, because I guess they are ... They have no harsh edges with…

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“Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's…

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“I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic…

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“I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend,…

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“Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there,…

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“Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back…

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“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul…

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“But one day I will wear him down, I will catch him off guard, and he will lose the energy for the…

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“I am fat with love! Husky with ardor! Morbidly obese with devotion! A happy, busy bumblebee of marital enthusiasm. I positively hum…

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“Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love.…

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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

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“Something bad was about to happen. My wife was being clever again.”

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“There’s no ‘When Your Wife Goes Missing 101.”

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In marriage, it's best to keep perspective. Get out of your head and get some perspective.

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“People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives want to believe they know…

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“He had married this creature, this figment of the imagination of a million masturbatory men, semen-fingered and self-satisfied.”

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“I do know that framing your husband for your murder is beyond the pale of what an average would do. But it's…

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“I woke up on my sister's couch with a raging hangover and an urge to kill my wife.”

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“Sometimes it is all too loud.”

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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

“My life has begun to feel like an epilogue.”

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“You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.”

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

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“you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy”

My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the…

“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook…

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“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful pretender women,…