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When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it. ↗

— Ava Gardner

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Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. ↗

— Amy Bloom

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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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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. ↗

— John Barnes

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Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Unless I’m at a wedding, I don’t like veiled threats.
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— Jarod Kintz

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Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days! ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this.... ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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