Marriage Quote by Alice McDermott

“Then he remembered his wedding, the old times, the first pregnancy of his wife; he, too, had been very happy the day when he…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Suddenly the memory of his wife came back to him and, no doubt feeling it would be too complicated to try to understand how…

— Marcel Proust

“But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He…

— Henning Mankell

“Their old life seemed far away and remote to him now, like a dream he could not quite remember. The bright green grass, the…

— Julie Otsuka

“she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time…

— David Baldacci

“His mother had died at eighty, his father at ninety. Aloud he said to them, "I'm seventy-one. Your boy is seventy-one." "Good. You lived,"…

— Philip Roth

“Her husband closed the door on her, gently, with both hands, as if he were covering her with a blanket. He crossed in front…

— Alice McDermott

“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.”

— Myron Uhlberg

“the old man turned his head, and his face expressed the sum total of the surprise which a man can still feel after a…

— Victor Hugo

“He really had experienced every tiniest increment of time in the four decades since then, and yet here he was surprised to be suddenly…

— Chris Cleave

“I sat beside my parents in the sanctuary filled with friends and relatives. They should have been our wedding guests. Instead, they’d come to…

— Kerry Lonsdale