Marriage Games Quotes

“The first time I saw her, I had to hold my breath. The first time she spoke, I exhaled.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“I needed to love you more than I wanted to dominate you. Don’t doubt for a second that I chose to love you.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“I just wanted to watch her exist.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“Nothing. You need nothing. I provide you with what you need, and what I don’t provide, you don’t need. Think of it as a vacation from adulthood.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“She's my life, do you understand? Have you ever loved a woman? Have you ever held her at night so tight because you couldn't sleep thinking something might happen to her? Have you ever built a future around a woman? Ever thought of every tomorrow, every year, every decade with her? Dreamed of your old age holding her hand?”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“I wanted her to go.
I wanted her to stay.
I wanted her on my terms
I wanted her on any terms.
I wanted to be cured of the disease of love.
I wanted to be cured of want.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“When is love? Is love when your heart swells at the sight of him? Is love when you fall asleep on his shoulder? Or when you fold him into sections so you can fit him in your odd-shaped envelope?”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“Bedroom games. That’s all it is. But they’re serious, and when played right, everyone wins.” He”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“Her enthusiasm infected me. She was light, life, energy. Everything. What wouldn't I do for her, when she gave me so much? I would have married her in an instant. So I did.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“Spread me like a sheet of paper. Write your life on mine. Fold past and present together like a letter. I am yours.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“It's another man.
I'll kill him.
Check everything.
Lock out the banks.
Tuesday after the Unicef Gala.
Fucked her Tuesday.
She came.
Did she come?
Definitely came.
What did I do wrong?
It's me.
What's his name? I'll kill—
Apologize for nothing.
Get access to her email.
Where is she?
Apologize for everything.
She didn't mean it.
Do something.
Do something.
Do.
Something.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“I loved her. Wanted to love her. Needed to love her, and the second she kneeled, she’d be nothing to me.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“There comes a point when you win, and you can either soothe the loser into thinking there was something in it for them or kick them while they're down to make sure they know what just happened.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“To submit is to choose. To hunt. To chase. To decide. To submit is to dominate.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“Without you, this part of myself that’s open now isn’t an opportunity. It’s an open wound. Every time you shut down, it bleeds.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“He'd taken my armor, carefully unlocked it, slipped it off, and hidden it.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“Do you hate your husband?” “I never hated him.” “You’re about to.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“She’d missed the entire point and hit the bullseye.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“I didn’t know what we were saying to each other. We were just battering rams of hurt and betrayal.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“They were symptoms of another disease. I needed to become a man unburdened by love.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“There were no parallel realities. No imaginings created infinite worlds for every possible decision.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“To submit is to choose. To hunt. To chase. To decide.

To submit is to dominate.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“She tasted exactly like she always had. Like my wife. My partner. My very heart.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“I carried around five tons of pain where she used to be.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“Self-determination's a great ability until it's directed against you.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“What would I do to possess her? Would I change my cellular structure? Turn my back on my identity?”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“I needed him to ride in and scoop me up without me giving him instructions on what color the horse should be or how shiny his armor needed to be. He needed to figure it out.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“I haven’t felt right in a long time. I need this corner of my world to be under control. You are the one great love of my life, but you don’t need this. You might like it, but you don’t need it. I do.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“Fuck me and my inability to love him.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games

“Complacency is the prologue to calamity.”
― C.D. Reiss, Marriage Games