Marian Keyes Quotes

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Relationships. Ugh. You have to laugh sometimes.

I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.

No relationship is great all the time.

In every relationship you go through really tough times.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

Every relationship has its complications.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.