Quote by Kathleen Norris

Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time…

— Kathleen Norris

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year…

— Yoko Ono

“Marriage breeds its own special brand of loneliness, and it’s far more cruel. You miss more, because you’ve known more.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“It is always the little things that build up. Often there is no dramatic reason for discontent in marriages. It seeps in slowly over…

— Preeti Shenoy

“Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon; you have not thoroughly learned to know each other's foibles by…

— Blanche Ebbutt

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

— Honore de Balzac

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted…

— Jane Austen

“Tis what marriage is all about, madam," he said. "Have you not realized it? 'Tis about discovering unknown facets of the character and experience…

— Mary Balogh

“Marriage is what happens "between the memorable." He said that we often look back on our marriages years later, perhaps after one spouse has…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“To stay married, you need a fair amount of ignorance. Selective forgetting is what makes close proximity possible. It’s what we forget about someone…

— Christopher G. Moore

“You've never been married, so you don't know, but it is a fragile thing. Nothing ever goes away, everything stays inside it. It is…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.

— Richard E. Grant