Marry Me Quotes

“it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.”
― John Updike, Marry Me: A Romance

“The world is composed of what we think it is; what we expect tends to happen; and what we expect is really what we desire.”
― John Updike, Marry Me: A Romance

“She saw each thing only as something to tell him about, and without him there was nothing to tell; he had robbed her of the world.”
― John Updike, Marry Me: A Romance

“Since the start of their affair he was always running, hurrying, creating time where no time had been needed before; he had become an athlete of the clock, bending odd hours into an unprecedented and unsuspected second life. He had given up smoking; he wanted his kisses to taste clean.”
― John Updike , Marry Me: A Romance

“Sweetie, the bluebird has flown. We're too young to sit around the rest of our lives waiting for it to fly back in the window. It won't. It can't fly backwards.'

He was using his hands again in that disagreeable stagey way, and Ruth was angered by the flicker of conceit in his expression when he struck upon the image of the bluebird fying backwards - a piece of animation on the screen of his face.”
― John Updike, Marry Me: A Romance