“I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore

“Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.” 
― Gwenn Wright

“The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore

“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.” 
― Erica Jong

“Those dreaming of the perfect match are outnumbered by those who don't really want it at all, though perhaps they can't admit it. After all, our culture makes individual freedom, autonomy and fulfillment the very highest values, and thoughtful people know deep down that any love relationship at all means the loss of all three. You can say, 'I want someone who will accept me just as I am,' but in your heart of hearts you know that you are not perfect, that there are plenty of things about you that need to be changed, and that anyone who gets to know you up close and personal will want to change them.” 
― Timothy J. Keller

“How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?”
― Christine de Pizan

“Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.” 
― Howard W. Hunter

“My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore