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Quote by Edan Lepucki

“I'm married. And pregnant.”

Author

Edan Lepucki is an American novelist born in 1981. Her works are celebrated for their unique narrative style and profound insights into modern society. Her debut novel, 'Women, Women,' was published in 2012 and quickly gained attention in the literary world. Lepucki's writing often explores themes of interpersonal relationships, social change, and personal identity, offering readers a unique perspective and food for thought. more

“All the tiny things made this mammoth union up, all the times he had picked her up from Sutherland station, made her chicken salad rolls and brought her a Lipton's iced tea, called her about Sunday and fixed Nina's shed door hinge, held her and not fucked her when she was dying with period pain, thought of what she said last night and made something of it the following afternoon, all these unspectacular deposits of love he had made and they were the currency, earning enough to have her see that he was nothing but the right one.”

Love Marriage

Author:Brendan Cowell

“Those were the best days in the life of Tancredi and Angelica, lives later to be so variegated, so erring, against the inevitable background of sorrow. But that they did not know then; and they were pursuing a future which they deemed more concrete than it turned out to be, made of nothing but smoke and wind. When they were old and uselessly wise their thoughts would go back to those days with insistent regret; they had been days when desire was always present because it was always overcome, when many beds had been offered and refused, when the sensual urge, because restrained, had for one second been sublimated in renunciation, that is into real love.”

Love Marriage

Book:The Leopard

Source: The Leopard

“Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried.”

Marriage

Book:The History Man

Source: The History Man

“She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die.”