The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce. - Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

"How can I grieve what is still in motion?"I ask her. "Shoes are still dropping all over the place. I´m not kidding,"I say. "It´s Normandy out there."

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

"I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self."

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

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