Marriage Negotiation Quotes & Sayings

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. — Brad Garrett

Losing him would, she realised, be unlike anything she had ever experienced before. A marriage is a conspiracy, a shared aspect toward the rest of the society, a code devised over a long history of negotiation and habit. That code would vanish. Her thoughts would be unobserved, her memories would be hers alone, without the heft that comes from sharing them with another. She would become insubstantial to herself. — Matthew De Abaitua

The bride will keep her name and, after considerable negotiation, the groom will, too. — Meg Waite Clayton

Like many others before him, Abbott discovers, once married, that marriage is a battle - clinically, a negotiation - over the possession of the Bad Mood. — Chris Bachelder

But he's mad, completely mad, and he turns his wives into golems. He needs killing, not negotiation. — T. Kingfisher