Susanna Clarke Quotes

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry. Imagine then the interest that surrounded Miss Wintertowne! No young lady ever had such advantages before: for she died upon the Tuesday, was raised to life in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was married upon the Thursday; which some people thought too much excitement for one week.

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

Since I had been little, everybody wanted me to get married.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

If you want to stop two people from having sex, let them get married.

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your mortality becomes very present at that point in your life.

Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

When you're young, the loss that you experience when you break up with somebody, that's the loss of a relationship. And the older you get, you actually lose people to death and you lose those relationships, too.

Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to talk about it. This is the world we're living in, people don't want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing.

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

People ask me a lot like, "Hey, so when are you done with your tour?" Like when I die. That's when I'm done with my tour.

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.

Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

‎ When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.