Jodi Picoult Quotes

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

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

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage.

Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

I think it's better, if people aren't getting on, that they should divorce.

After the first couple of years of on 'Black-ish,' my wife and I actually broke up. We got back together, and it was this really, really difficult time for me.

The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.

You married Elora?” “Yes, briefly.” Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a good way to combine our respective kingdoms. Vittra and Trylle have had their disagreements over the years, and we wanted to create peace. Unfortunately, your mother is the most impossible, irrational, horrible woman on the planet.” He smiled at me. “Well, you know. You’ve met her.

If I get married again, I'm just going to buy the woman a house and break up with her, because that will be the end result anyway.

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.

Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.

I asked my wife, 'Is there somebody else?' She said, 'There MUST be.'

I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections - to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year.

Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.