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“Acorn struggles in pain to crack the hard shell and emerge. For it senses that out there exists more and it knows it. It feels that there is a sun, even if Acorn hasn't seen it. It has felt some wa...”
“Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”
“Some days my mantra was I will stay in this marriage because I am a Christian and Christians stay, but other days, I thought: if the choices are Christianity or divorce then I will just have to emb...”
“It turns out there is something worse than attending a wedding where you don't know anyone: attending a wedding where you know six people, and they are all your ex-husband's best friends.”
“Major changes in life are just the way the universe is aligning a better future for you.”
“But the truth is you don't always know you're getting a divorce. For years, you're married. Then, one day, the concept of divorce enters your head. It sits there for a while. You lean toward it and...”
“Maybe it shouldnt have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.”
“She didnt know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.”
“When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.”
“My father was gone. I went up to his suite, not to see him, but to figure out if he had been gone or left in a hurry. It looked like a tornado had visited so I assume he started packing as soon as ...”
“Theres never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people.”
“The time period in question was before the proliferation of outsourcing, but there was already Craigslist as a ready reserve resource. I had to resolutely disregard interesting-but-unhelpful search...”
“Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.”
“We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind.”
“He went on for some time while I sat listening in silence because I knew he was right, and like two people who have loved each other however imperfectly, who have tried to make a life together, how...”
“I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.”
“Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.”
“It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.”
“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”
“In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert...”
