Books Quote by Ada Calhoun Download Open image ““Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.”” — Ada Calhoun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dating Dating Poetry Marriage Marriage Novel Poetry Poetry Marriage Time
“There was no need for courtship; they simply met one day and were together after that.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Relationships and dating don't always have the perfect narrative arc like they do in the movies. In real life, nothing happens in an order… — Hannah Witton Copy Share Image
“Dating today can feel like a maze, full of twists, turns, and unexpected dead ends.” — Ronen Dancziger Copy Share Image
“very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A marriage at the breaking point required a lot of untangling between two people. A lot of talking.” — Linda Barrett Copy Share Image
“But being in a relationship doesn’t mean one has to marry. Marriage is not always the culmination of any relationship.” — Rashmi Singh Copy Share Image
“And then you realize that when you finally meet, when you finally find each other, it doesn’t matter. All the rest of it doesn’t… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
“Someone once said that marriage is like standing in a corridor lined with doors. You go off through your door, he goes through his,… — Carrie Adams Copy Share Image
“If only I had known that it takes a lot more than love to make a marriage work, then maybe our story would be… — Mia Asher Copy Share Image
“Marriage is like calculus. Complicated and inexplicably remote. People think it's about loving one another and riding off into the sunset, but no one… — Kristin Billerbeck Copy Share Image
“Romance is a veiled reality, while marriage is the unveiling of reality!” — Dr. Vivencio Ballano Copy Share Image
“Forsaking all others means going deep with one person -- exhaustingly deep.” — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“So what's the secret to staying together?" I asked her. "Be nice?" she offered. I laughed, but that may be it, the way a… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring.” — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“By staying married, we give something to ourselves and to others: hope. Hope that in steadfastly loving someone, we ourselves, for all our faults,… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of really broken people. Unfortunately, especially for women, your sense of self and your viability is so under assault from… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling -- it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise," writes psychologist… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.” — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“As married people, we dwell on a spectrum between happy and unhappy, in love and out of love, and we move back and forth… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“People who don't marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards.” — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go, there you are. You would just have different problems. Are the problems you have now so bad that any other problems… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married.” — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image