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I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor.


W. Somerset Maugham


#love #marriage #humor

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.


Morton Hunt


#any #break #break up #determination #failure

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.


Elizabeth Gilbert


#marriage #love

We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie


Deborah Heiligman


#true-to-life #faith

Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#friendship

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.


Frank Delaney


#the-matchmaker-of-kenmare #marriage

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)


Elizabeth Gilbert


#marriage

People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.


Javier Marías


#marriage

I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.


Suzanne Finnamore


#divorce #infidelity #marriage #seperation #marriage

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


#identity #marriage #women #love






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