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It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but…

— Jan Struther

“Marriage suddenly didn’t seem like enough to safeguard what she meant to me. Why wasn’t there something more binding than a mere piece of…

— Sylvia Day

“It was why marriages fell apart. It was why, if you valued your marriage, you kept a barricade around yourself and your feelings and…

— Liane Moriarty

“Then she remarked that marriage was a serious matter. To which I answered: "No.”

— Albert Camus

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton

I got married for the wrong reasons. I was tired of being alone. I have to own that. It was me, not her.

— Steve Harvey

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The outside pressure to be married was intense. This had surprised her a decade ago, but now she thought she understood. People wanted you…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Her feelings about marriage were . . . fanciful and unrealistic.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“The key to marriage, she concluded, was just not to take the thing too personally.”

— Lorrie Moore

“She said, “I’m not marrying anybody.” When I asked her why she felt that way, she said she wanted to be free to die…

— Arundhati Roy

So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was…

— Steve Martin