First place Quote by Liane Moriarty

“It was messy. It was imperfect. Raw and real. And it was the way it worked for us. It was how we found each…

— Karina Halle

“Normal life. Comfortable life. Not perfect, of course. Nobody had a perfect marriage, did they?”

— Rachel Caine

“Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.”

— Alexandra Bogdanovic

“They had as good a shot at making it as anyone did, but what if marriage didn't solve anything and didn't save anyone even…

— Paula McLain

“They got married and, as humans do, began to drift apart.”

— Julie Kagawa

“And I realized that, for this night at least, I didn't much care if anyone was the marrying kind or not - not even…

— Julie Powell

“Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two hours away...”

— Charles Frazier

“The outside pressure to be married was intense. This had surprised her a decade ago, but now she thought she understood. People wanted you…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Perhaps the truth was there was no perfect marriage, just some really good ones.”

— Karen Hawkins

“I've married some people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?”

— Mamie Van Doren

“People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little . . . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.”

— Laura Dave

“In a just world, couples would all have the opportunity to break down together.”

— Tom McAllister