Love is a crime if you don’t abide by it’s rules and regulations.

Giraldus claimed that he had heard about Eleanor’s adultery with Geoffrey from the saintly Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, who had learned of it from Henry II of England, Geoffrey’s son and Eleanor’s second husband. Eleanor...

those people”–the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door.

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

There are a lot of young adults out there who have just lost their way. Some move home after a divorce, others just aren’t making enough after college to afford a place of their own.

No, it really isn’t, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn’t fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize...

He was the one I compared all others to.

It’s important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you’re asking for problems.

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

Anyway,” continued Mr. Miller, “when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People...

Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man’s access to) their kids.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

In his sovereignty, God looked down through history and specifically chose you to be the father of your child. He decided no one else could raise that boy or girl better than you. In all...

I’m a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.

Do I think a marriage with him would last? I have my doubts. There, I said it. But marraige is always a risk. And so what if it doesn’t work? Would that make you absolutely...

He didn’t take any of my shit. I needed that.

I begin the chapter and book on very elementary reasoning and a simple description: this description of relationships developed naturally and socially; this reasoning that such relationships have long-existed and are very important—even eternal to...

I don’t think it’s bad to get divorced. I think it’s more unhealthy to have miserable lives. We weren’t put here to live miserably, we were put here to grow and learn and be happy.

Ida Says ‘I do’ in Idaho.” It would be about a divorce in Washington State, and the protagonist would be a woman, though I’m not sure what her name should be.

Consider this a one-thousand horsepower divorce, sweetheart

…Daisy doesn’t even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom… you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset,...

You and I both know that love is for children,” he said. ”We’re adults. Compatibility is for adults.””Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,” Teresa replied. ”Only they get along just fine, and my...

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...

Once that ship has sailed don’t hold on to the anchor

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

I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake. I would say, “Oh, this rake is uneven. Do you have any where the tines go straight across?”...

What is taking place here should be made very clear: Citizens who are completely innocent of any legal wrongdoing and simply minding their own business–not seeking any litigation and neither convicted nor accused of any...

Morgan explained about his marriages. He had tried to sell his ex-older wife an encyclopedia years before and well, you guessed it. When she agreed to buy the books he married her on the spot....

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all...

If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we...

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them...

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that’s none of his business), he very sweetly says that I ‘might leave a wife, but not a...

There are all these things my mother is good for that my father isn’t, and all these things my father is good for that my mother isn’t, and if only they could work out their...

They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, ‘Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.’ And...

I’m creative, I make up almost everything. But with all my creativity, I couldn’t make up with my wife.

Divorce looks like one of the fastest ways to destroy your wealth.

What’s the truth? The truth is what happened to you and him or her, over the years, and what didn’t happen. The truth is what you said and didn’t say, how much you tried, how...

There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.

Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.

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

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides...

This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or...

I wouldn’t like to think of it as a divorce. I would like to think we worked together for a common good.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.

A journey to try is not worthy to start, better to love none than starting over in relationships and getting dropped like a coin that won’t get tossed.

The most surprising thing about breaking up is that you already know how to do it. Everything you need to know, you learned in kindergarten. Yours should always be better than his (especially when it...