Complacency Quote by Elizabeth Winder

“If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's…

— Evelyn Waugh

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

— Bette Davis

“It is noteworthy that few works of fiction make marriage their central concern. As Northrup Frye puts it, with his accustomed clarity: 'The heroine…

— Carolyn G. Heilbrun

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

She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people…

— Nicholas Sparks

“The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where…

— Callie Hunter

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if…

— Muriel Spark

“Before, she’d envisioned their marriage as a battle waged between the two of them, where one triumphed and one surrendered, a contest for control…

— Glynnis Campbell

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

“Such disappointments, betrayals and reconciliations were the stuff of married life, but she and Jack had gone through them before the wedding. Now, at…

— Ken Follett

“However vivid they might be, past images and future delights did not protect Sylvia from the present, which "rules despotic over pale shadows of…

— Elizabeth Winder

“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