You end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.

Something my dad says...He says you end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying.

When you've been stuck with each other long enough it can seem like there's no difference between no longer arguing and no longer caring.

Love one another until death do us part,' isn't that what we said? Isn't that what we promised each other? Or am I remembering wrong? 'Or at least until one of us gets bored.' Maybe that was it?

The worst thing a divorce does to a person isn't that it makes all the time you devoted to the relationship feel wasted, but it steals all the plans you had for the future.

Parenthood can lead to a sequence of years when the children's feelings suck all the oxygen out of a family, and that can be so emotionally intense that some adults go for years without having an opportunity to tell anyone about their own feelings, and if you don't get a chance for long enough, sometimes you simply forget how to do it.

Mum is a perfectionist and Dad is a pedant and that was partly why their marriage didn't work so well, Elsa figures. Because a perfectionist and a pedant are two very different things.

The Lanky One, by means of subtle gestures and signs, seems to want to convey to the woman that this is not quite as easy as it looks. The woman, with gestures that are comparatively unsubtle, seems to want to convey that it might have something to do with the moronic nature of the Lanky One in question.