#breaking-up

"Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having."

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

"One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up."

"I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?"

"Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better."

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

"In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry."

"To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you."

"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."

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

"Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and difficult yoga positions and self-realization, and make this so much easier and more pleasant for all concerned."

"The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories."

"You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

"They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed."

"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."

"The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce."

"Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier."

"Even on my weakest daysI get a little bit stronger"

"When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better."

"To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much."