“Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring, or irritating?”
Barbara Pym
Jane and Prudence
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“She had been married to a man who had never bored her and these people bored her very much”
Ernest Hemingway
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
“People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.”
Jeaniene Frost
Once Burned
“And I could tell she loved him. And although she was an evil fungus growing on 200 pounds of irritated lard, her feelings were real.”
Lynda Barry
“I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.”
Françoise Sagan
Bonjour Tristesse
“I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn’t make verbal threats were the most dangerous.”
Maria V. Snyder
Magic Study