Lisa Jewell Quotes

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

When I have to cry, I think about my love life. When I have to laugh, I think about my love life.

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.

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

'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.

I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

You don't always marry the love of your life.

You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’ And this means…?’ Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

Doing a love story as a genre, and looking at love stories in movies, and feeling like I learned stuff about that, and that it broadened my view and my idea of what I can do, and how I can work with the people around me, that was such a great, really satisfying experience.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.

What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?

I told him I loved him,” she said, her voice dropping to a whisper. “And he just said it wasn’t enough.” Her eyes were wide and bleak . “How am I supposed to live with that?

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?