Family Quote by Mark Helprin

“There are trials and mistakes and even wars along the path of marriage.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“the vast edifice of expectation and commitment that a marriage would pile on her.”

— Marius Gabriel

“For me the act of marriage has proven, like most of the other disastrous acts of my life, little more than a hedge against…

— Michael Chabon

“In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Through the act of getting married, one has taken on the task of mutual confrontation until death.”

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

“Marriage didnt really seem to be about love; it was about the ability to live together for a long period of time”

— Jodi Picoult

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton

“He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.”

— T.C. Boyle

“Marriage was nothing but a primitive form of torture;”

— Mary Campisi

“Marriage is the art of balancing the desires of each, within the hearts of both, and doing so without uneven sacrifice of either.”

— Renee Duvall

“We are so dull that we rarely realize how much history lies hidden in marriage, and how the one word spoken by the bride…

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

“Before, she’d envisioned their marriage as a battle waged between the two of them, where one triumphed and one surrendered, a contest for control…

— Glynnis Campbell