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Marriage Quotes by Stephen King

38 Marriage quotes by Stephen King

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A cloud of black rain can hover over a kitchen table, symbolizing the thought of divorce. Stephen King’s quotes show marriage as a mix of sturdy love and everyday challenges, and they compare the relationship to other passions like books and plays. The words also hint that staying honest can be harder than staying sober.

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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...

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“He says there's a reason wife and life sound almost the same.”

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“Your bullshit quotient is higher than my husband”

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Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

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“You saved Hal's wife, why not my wife? Why not Janice? WHY NOT MY JANICE?”

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“She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband.”

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She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to…

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“Not a giggle, Hodges thought, but a titter. Given that her husband was dead, he supposed you could even call it a…

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“Leigh left college to be married, and then it was goodbye Drew and hello Taos. I went to her wedding with hardly…

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“It was, he supossed, one of the adventages of having married a doctor- you could shove the kid at your husband whenever…

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“His love for his wife and son was not beautiful—no one would ever write a poem to the passion of a man…

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“The thoughts of DIVORCE hung over the kitchen table like a cloud full of black rain, pregnant, ready to burst.”

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“It is only a deep echo, perhaps a reverberation of her husband’s madness, as soft as a rustle of batwings in a…

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Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's…

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“In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life.…

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“A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I…

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“I’d read a book called A Reliable Wife not too long before leaving on the world’s strangest trip, and as I climbed…

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Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t…

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The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take…

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The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough…

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“You need to get in the Baptist way of churching, son. Ours welcomes newcomers. You can take this place, and maybe some…

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“their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the…

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My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely…

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About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her,…

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“Maybe he was as mad as he said he was, but she could see only a species of miserable fright. Suddenly, like…

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“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a…

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“Louis stared at her, nonplussed. He more than half suspected that one of the things which had kept their marriage together when…

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“On a very hot day in August of 1994, my wife told me she was going down to the Derry Rite Aid…

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“I remembered talking with a writer friend who lived in Otisfield and supported his wife and two kids by raising chickens and…

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“The elms made him think of brothers, of sisters, of husbands and wives—he was sure that, beneath the ground, their roots were…

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“Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes…

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“And above [the three of] them, Old Star and Old Mother rose into their appointed places and stared at each other across…

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“He saw only that his wife hated him and he felt staggered by it, all alone. He felt awful. This was what…

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“I love my life and my wife and kids, but I've always been somewhat quasi-suicidal, constantly wanting to push things past the…

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I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife;…

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My wife has told me since that I was hungover every mornng until about two in the afternoon, and from five until…

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“Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a…

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I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and…

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It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

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“The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up.…

“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one…

“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened…

“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and…

“¿Lo ves, tonto? Volvió a regañarse. Tú lo inventaste todo, gato asustado. No fue más que tu imaginación, gato asustado, gato asustado... No te…

“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to…

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a…

“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”