A Happy Marriage Quotes

“My husband always remembers things. Every anniversary, every to-do item, every misstep.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“Anyway, Mom, if you’re listening, I love you and miss you, and that ficus plant that you always said I was gonna kill—it’s still alive. Just like me. We’re fighters, just like you were. Just like you’ll always be in my mind. Thank you for adopting me. You were the best thing that ever happened in my life.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“Two odds, as his wife likes to say, don’t make a right.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“I watch my wife eat her cereal and think about the first girl I killed.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“Adults who are still dependent on and connected to their parents experience problems in their own marriages, poor connections with their own children, and a reduced ability to think and problem-solve for themselves.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“The radio is on, and it’s playing “Exes” by Tate McRae. I”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“Other than that, the last time I did any version of cardio was when I tried to be on top during sex and had to switch positions after thirty seconds because my thighs gave out.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“This isn’t Joe. This is a man without a soul, one fueled by rage and hurt. I did that to him. I pushed him to this place, one where he screams at me as if I am a misbehaving child. My cheek is still stinging from his slap. For a decade, he’s never so much as grabbed me too tightly, much less put his hands on me like that.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“iced coffee with toasted marshmallow, cold foam,”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“Fifty thousand dollars. For Joe and me, it’d be nothing. A drop in the bucket. But for so many individuals, it was life changing and worth killing for. I’ve found murderers who had extinguished a life for as little as five or ten thousand bucks.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“Afterward, we flew first class to Tahiti, and it was there, floating on a raft in an emerald-green lagoon, where I admitted to him that my insecurity was what had fueled every decision in the wedding-planning. The event ended up being a personal statement, one I had underlined with personal caviar boats and a twelve-member orchestra:”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“My wife thinks she’s so smart with her little red wagon full of secrets. She pulls it behind her closely, picking up different deceptions as she goes and adding them to the mound that weighs down the bed.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“It isn’t until you’re seasoned that you realize conspiracies and complications only mean one thing: more paperwork and more loopholes for a ruthless defense attorney to jump through.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“I watch my wife eat her cereal and think about the first girl I killed. She ate cereal in a very different manner,”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“A man could never understand all the dynamics that go into trying to survive as a young woman.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage

“Dogs will starve to death beside their owners. Not cats. They start munching the ears first.”
― A.R. Torre, A Happy Marriage