Lisa Jewell Quotes

We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.

I was married and divorced at 23.

I've had a very strange life. Whenever I've married, I've married for life. But things have gone desperately wrong.

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.

My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby.

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails.

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

Mickey - the smallest husband I ever had and the biggest mistake I ever made - well, that year, it was.

I was never totally into marriage, and I wasn't a very good wife.

I was married once. When the tinsel from Tum Bin' was wearing off, so was the happiness from my first marriage. Ever since, I've been wary of marrying again.

Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

Being married sucked. Maybe for some people it is not meant to be.

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

It's a very sad thing to do, to divorce.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.