“You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.”
![“You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he…” quote by Lauren Bacall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/441/lauren-bacall-2297_awake_you-had-to-stay-awake-married-to-him-hum_1653959.jpg)
![“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)
