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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#infidelity #insane #marriage #marriage

A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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I was steeped in denial, but my body knew. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative of all humans to make ludicrous choices, to fall in love with the most unlikely of partners, and to set themselves up for the most predicatable of calamities. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#fidelity #love

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much. ↗

— Ava Gardner

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