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They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#love #marriage #possessiveness #love

God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them? ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#infidelity #marriage #seperation #marriage

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#feel-sorry #marriage #pity #marriage

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#divorce #evidence #infidelity #marriage #pencils

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one. ↗

— Dennis Hopper

#marriage #marriage

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage