"You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me."

-- Wallace Stegner

#Married Quotes

“I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.”
“I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.”
“The best way to persuade is with your ears.”
“If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to....”
“Yeah, because when youâ€™re attracted to someone, you actually enjoy kissing them and afterward, you donâ€™t act like you kissed Adolf Hitler.”
“The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.”
“It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.”
“...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).”

Source : Cara Lockwood (2003). “I Do (But I Don't)”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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