Marriage Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“It started out organically enough. We'd been married for a year and a half. We'd reached the halfway point - we had just over…

— Loren Niva

“When she’d gotten her period at thirteen, he’d given her a copy of The Care and Keeping of You. He’d been red-faced, gruffly saying,…

— Kresley Cole

“She got herself widowed, divorced, married, and pregnant – all in ten days’ time.”

— Betty Smith

“She didn’t know what to make of this sporadic urgency with him. It had confounded and humiliated her for the thirty years of their…

— Ayana Mathis

“he'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Even after so many years of marriage, there were things she didn't know about her husband's life!”

— Farahad Zama

“She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at…

— Barbara Pym

“Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I…

— George Eliot

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“How could she believe she could breastfeed if everyone assumed she could not?”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“It was that she had already fallen in love, and been married, and had a child, and had her heart broken. He had yet…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“She was old to know that marriages were like children. They had lives of their own and didn't necessarily act the way you thought…

— Rebecca Flowers