Jasper Fforde Quotes

I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out... being married is not easy.

I never thought that I would get married, but it wound up happening. That was a really, really happy, exciting moment.

The jobs don't get married. The people get married.

Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.

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

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

I don't really understand it - marriage.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Did you fall in love with her?" "I care about her. A lot." "You're not supposed to marry someone if you don't fall in love with her." "Well, love is a choice, too." Holly shook her head. "I think it's something that happens to you." Mark smiled into her small, earnest face. "Maybe it's both," he said, and tucked her in.

The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

You're learning things. As you get older, you're experiencing them. You learn about what it means to be sacrificial. Then, you get married or something like that and you think, "Oh, wow! This is the real deal."

It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships.

Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.

When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

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

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

I will get married soon. It is in the pipeline. I believe in the institution of marriage.

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.