divorce

Beauty won__ protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can__ plan for. The one thing you can__ save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More of it. More of it to try and make things right.

But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn__ share the housework but that we were unbelievably irritable young women and our husbands irritated us unbelievably. - The D Word

Tough break-up? Trash stinks, which is why you toss it.

Divorce, she could see, would be like marriage - a power grab, as in who would be the dog, and who would be the owner of the dog.

I guess I could drive myself crazy trying to figure out why he left me but I can__, all I can do is move on, Parisa replied, the words came out smoother and easier than she expected.

That was the kind of life she__ had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn__ worked out that way. Things in life seldomdid, she__ come to understand

I'll be a son of a bitch," Patrick said.Aidan could barely make his eyes move, forcing them from the papers onto him. "What?"__ make a living, even life and death judgments, by reading peoples' body language, their raw reactions to situations. And I'd almos swear you've never seen those documents before.""Well," Aidan said, swallowing hard, calculating what fame and money had cost him. "I'd say you're damn good at your job, because I haven't.

Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man.

Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.

Moving on means getting back on track to align with the opposite of what turned you off.

When Ginny realized I wouldn__ ask Max for a divorce, her request became an ultimatum. One day she screamed, __ake up your mind, Simon. It__ either me or your wife, you can__ have it both ways._ She didn__ sound vulnerable like a rejected woman, she sounded shrill and demanding with a threatening tone. (terrific line) This had to end, and soon.

Every success and failure of any relationship is two-sided. No matter how thin, the pancake always has two sides. Yes, I blew my marriages. And so did they.

If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure.

Most serious confrontations in life are not political, they are existential. One can agree with someone's political stance but disagree in a fundamental way with how they came to that position. It is a question of attitude, of moral configuration. My husband and I had plenty of grievances, but it all boiled down to a fundamental difference in the way we perceived life, the context within which we defined ourselves and our world. For that, there was no reconciliation or resolution, there was only separation or surrender.