“He loves her for everything she is and is not. She’s old enough to appreciate that.” 
― Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

“The Betty Lady explains love and splitting up: "It´s like playing the shell game with Jesus. You can´t figure anything out; it´s best not to try. You´ll just humiliate yourself.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore

“Don't forget to wish your husband good-morning when he sets off to the office. He will feel the lack of your good-bye kiss all day.” 
― Blanche Ebbutt

“With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.” 
― Virginia Woolf

“The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you’re having and the one you’re not.” 
― Robin Black

“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” 
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.