Marriage Quote by Lorrie Moore

“Brides never fare well in stories. Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.”

— Carmen Maria Machado

“Romantic novels had much to answer for.”

— Jayne Fresina

“It's always terrible when you realize that you've married the wrong book.”

— Dan Chaon

“I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.”

— Darcey Steinke

“But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn’t all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn’t have been the real thing.”

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Weddings are great, but they mostly end up in marriages and that is the problem.”

— Radovan Kavický

“Despite all of my moaning and groaning about the romantic disasters that continued to befall me, I knew if I were ever forced to…

— Joyce Elbert

“Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.”

— Lexi Blake

“Well, a love story, that's no story at all. People don't want a happy ending. They want conflict. They want the heroine to fall…

— Jodi Picoult

“I’m a hopeless romantic. Any book with a love story in it is more likely to grab my attention.”

— Sierra Abrams

“Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one?”

— Salman Rushdie