Getting married Quote by Paula McLain

“She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.”

— a.s. byatt

“Even when the divorce papers had come in the mail, even when he’d finally signed them, he’d still felt married, still felt as if…

— Ann H. Gabhart

“I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to…

— Elizabeth Wein

“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

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“She was looking for a husband, partly because she was afraid no one might want her, partly because she couldn't decide what to do…

— A.S. Byatt

“That’s why I never married. Marriage is lonely, but it ain’t private.” That was always my most intense fear about getting married: When everything…

— Rob Sheffield

“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

“Perhaps he was frightened by the sheer prospect of matrimony, of marrying a girl he would one day want to murder.”

— Richard Russo

“He still had not the slightest understanding of why he had really come; he blamed himself for a late flare of desire crudely masked…

— Herman Wouk

“Nothing perhaps is so efficacious in preventing men from marrying as the tone in which married women speak of the struggles made in that…

— Anthony Trollope

“..he had found himself thinking that marriage was not merely an empty ritual. It was a plea for patience on the part of those…

— Margot Livesey