John Scalzi Quotes

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever.

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

I miss your love, I miss your touch But I'm feeling you every day. And I can almost hear you say You've come a long way baby.

One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married people who have never felt accepted. Marriage is not a reformatory, and spouses need to reach out to each other without criticism or reservations. To live with a wife or husband who does not accept you is a dark valley to walk through.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

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

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beat- ing heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me. I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you’ll tell them and you wonder what they’re doing, and you know they’re wondering what you’re doing.

A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.

Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

Marriage is when two people love each other so much that they promise that if they ever, ever stop they'll fill out tons of paperwork.

But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you.

A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable.

I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.

We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.

My wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

You wouldn't kill me. You'd miss me.