Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

Partners fall in and out of love, but they still need each other.

I am not drawn to the fairytale kind of love. I am drawn to the real-life experiences between a woman and a man. I try to sing about the way it is, but yet at the same time, what you can hope for between a couple.

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Just because you have chemistry with someone doesn't mean you're naturally going to be the best for each other. You have make choices and prioritize.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

A relationship takes two people to make or break it.

I've always been of the mindset that relationships can be different and relationships can go bad with different people. That doesn't mean they're going to be a bad relationship with me.