Marriage Quote by Doris Lessing

“It was a bad habit of hers … looking for safety in places where there wasn’t any.”

— Lisa Kleypas

“It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be.”

— Charles Yu

“He was curious about how much of her indignation was real and how much was self-protection.”

— Susan Mallery

“I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.”

— Richelle Mead

“She was brave, taking on Grant all by herself. And she was gutsy and feisty, and she never gave up. A woman like that…

— Anastasia Wilde

“Whatever her husband had done, it couldn't be as bad as what she herself had done.”

— Chris Pavone

“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had…

— Tracy Anne Warren

“Gradually then, because he could not share his inner self with her, he lost the power of being a husband to her, and she…

— Betty Smith

“She was his wife in every way that mattered and that would save her.”

— Ann Patchett

“It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip off down to their souls in front of their long-term partners.…

— Liane Moriarty

“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a…

— Haruki Murakami

“Dangerous when he wanted to invade her personal space like he had the right to without fucking regard for if she wanted him there.”

— V. Theia