“First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.” 
― J.G. Ballard

“Love is greater than marriage, love is the greater thing while marriage, though noble and honorable, is questionable in its origins. I question the creations of man, I do not question the masterpieces of God.” 
― C. JoyBell C.

“Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.” 
― Barbara Bartlein

“You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.” 
― Deanna Raybourn

“[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present.” 
― Elizabeth I

“But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.” 
― Margaret George

“Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.” 
― Mark Gungor

“I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.” 
― Suzanne Finnamore