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“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”
“You don't know when you're twenty-three.You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're goin...”
“Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.”
“Suffer you will, one way or another”
“The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that lea...”
“My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.”
“Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they've worked at anything in their lives before. If it's a go...”
“A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.”
“I am going insane. Yes. That is whats happening. Good. Insane.”
“Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after.”
“So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could understand how there were ever divorces, or even fights.”
“My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.”
“This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love t...”
“The divorce papers remained unopened in the crisp yellow envelope. He had thrown it on his desk without a backward glance. Between his lashes, his dark chocolate eyes burned with fury but there was...”
“The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is a unique person. Since marriage is inevitably a relationship betwe...”
“Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?”
“I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.”
“My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated ...”
“Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.”
“On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice...”
