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“The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back... maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt than sharing your life with other actual human beings.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“I'll share my life with you. But, not my doughnuts.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way.”
― T. Coraghessan Boyle

“I told her about the time that I got so tired of you stealing the sheets that in my sleep-weary logic I decided that the thing to do was to tie them around my legs, knot and all, and how, when you attempted to steal them that night, you ended up yanking me into you, and I was so startled that I sprang up, tripped, and was nearly concussed.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“In my Paris apartment, when a neighbor drives nails into the wall at an undue hour, I "naturalize" the noise by imagining that I am in my house in Dijon, where I have a garden. And finding everything I hear quite natural, I say to myself: "That's my woodpecker at work in the acacia tree." This is my method for obtaining calm when things disturb me.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

“A man's earthly possessions are in one of two places - the place he left them in or the place his significant other moved them to without telling him.”
― Stewart Stafford

“If a man chooses cohabitation over marriage, his fears are bigger than his love for you; move on.”
― Allene vanOirschot

“It takes six years to learn to live together, and get over the most furious fits of wishing you hadn't married him, and hating him, but after that he becomes a habit and a property and you stop bothering about it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The issue of who will throw the garbage won’t be so trivial when no one is throwing it away, and it starts to stink. When the plates pile up in the kitchen sink, or when the bathroom is grimy and the shampoo ran out. No, it won’t be funny then.”
― Eeva Lancaster, You're Getting Married Soon... Now What?

“Marriage gives us the security of tying another person to us-and us to them. But marriage itself also serves as a general wall of protection from illness in ways that cohabitation does not.”
― Glenn T. Stanton, The Ring Makes All the Difference

“Marriage is more. Don't settle for less.”
― Glenn T. Stanton, The Ring Makes All the Difference

“- Love, which is a kind of permission to come closer than ordinary norms of good behavior might usually sanction.
- Back rubs.
- Which enables us to see each other without clothes on, for example, in lust and shame.
- Examining perfections, imperfections.
- Which allows us to say wounding things to each other which would not be kosher under the ordinary rules of civilized discourse.”
― Donald Barthelme, Great Days

“The side which is first to forgive shall become the strongest”
― Monaristw

“The side which is first to forgive shall be the strongest”
― Monaristw

“Living together instead of marrying is pretending at life; you want to test drive the car without fully purchasing it.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer

“True love does not need a test run to check its validity; cars that get used and stored for later do.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer

“You might be tempted to conclude: “Well, how about we live together, instead of getting married? We will try each other out. It is the sensible thing to do.â€� But what exactly does it mean, when you invite someone to live with you, instead of committing yourself to each other? And let us be appropriately harsh and realistic about our appraisal, instead of pretending we are taking a used car for a test jaunt. Here is what it means: “You will do, for now, and I presume you feel the same way about me. Otherwise we would just get married. But in the name of a common sense that neither of us possesses, we are going to reserve the right to swap each other out for a better option at any point.â€� And if you do not think that is what living together means—as a fully articulated ethical statement—see if you can formulate something more plausible. You might think, “Look, Doc, that is pretty cynical.â€� So why not we consider the stats, instead of the opinion of arguably but not truly old-fashioned me? The breakup rate among people who are not married but are living together—so, married in everything but the formal sense—is substantially higher than the divorce rate among married couples. And even if you do get married and make an honest person, so to speak, of the individual with whom you cohabited, you are still much more rather than less likely to get divorced than you would be had you never lived together initially. So the idea of trying each other out? Sounds enticing, but does not work.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

“One of the joys of living together is things become cheaper!”
― Steven Magee

“The centre of the village is a void elegantly furnished with a bloody suction.”
― César Aira, Ghosts