““How did you keep your hands off him?" She gave me a sly look that I never could have imagined on her face before. "Or did you?" "Please," Wendell said. "I ask to be excused from any descriptions of marital intimacy. This whole thing is unfair: I asked you to marry me first." "Oh, that's rich!" I exclaimed, and was about to remind him of his many dalliances, which he'd never hesitated to make me aware of””
![“Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures and inflections were so mercilessly familiar that it was as if he were an extension of me, an element of my own personality over which I had little control.” quote by Curtis Sittenfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ce2/curtis-sittenfeld-1731_marriage_was-this-what-marriage-was-the-slow-proc_1287084.jpg)
![“Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the…” quote by Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f0b/thomas-huxley-1183_animal_perhaps-no-order-of-mammals-presents-us_3051.jpg)
