Kristin Hannah Quotes

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.

Everyone knows marriage is tough.

I can tell you right away that no marriage is easy.

As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

I've been through a lot as far as love.

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

All marriages have their phases.

I've been married a few times. I'm not good at it.

I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

Everybody goes through a period where you're fighting a lot, I think. Sometimes that can be a good thing for your relationship. That conflict can lead to making up.

When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.

We're a young, married couple, and we go through all the ups and downs that every couple goes through; we're no different.

I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.

I try to make my wife happy, but I know my efforts aren't enough.

It's a hard business this dating business! Love is complicated!