#mar

I just didn't car. I told you I don't like animals." She gave a snort, then settled back to silence. Cross another quality from her list. Earth Mother Sucked. ↗

— Jennifer Probst

#marriage

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it? ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#sex #marriage

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#marriage #teen-fiction #young-adult #love

I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#good #intensity #love #marriage #spouse

Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#marriage

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! ↗

— Angela Carter

#women #marriage

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#marriage #marriage

The youngest one,” she interrupted. “The youngest son, I mean. The one who is unmarried.” “I know who he is.” “Very well, then. What is wrong with him?” At that she cocked her head to the side and waited expectantly. He thought for a moment. “Nothing.” “You—wait.” She blinked. “Nothing?” He shook his head, then shifted his weight a little; his good foot was beginning to fall asleep. “Nothing comes immediately to mind.” It was true. She could do a good deal worse than Gregory Bridgerton. “Really?” she asked suspiciously. “You find nothing at all objectionable about him.” Marcus pretended to think about this a bit longer. Clearly he was supposed to be playing a role here, probably that of the villain. Or if not that, then the grumpy old man. “I suppose he’s a bit young,” he said. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#humor #marriage #marriage

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done. ↗

— Burt Reynolds

#marriage #marriage

This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy.... his arranged marriage between the Elder Edda and "The Wind in the Willows"--big Icelandic romance and small-scale, cozy English children's book. The story told by "The Lord of the Rings" is essentially what would happen if Mole and Ratty got drafted into the Nibelungenlied. ↗

— Adam Gopnik

#fantasy #j-r-r-tolkien #literature #romance #the-wind-in-the-willows