“Why is it do you think that people get married?”
Beverly Clark, via Shall We Dance (2004)
“Passion.”
“No.”
“It’s interested because I would have taken you for a romantic. Why then?”
“Because we need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people on the planet… I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things… all of it, all of the time, every day. You’re saying ‘Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness’.”