#breaking-up

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

"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."

"I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem."

"I wore your promise on my finger for one yearI'll wear your name on my heart til I dieBecause you were my boy, you were my only boy forever."

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

"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."

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

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

"Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

"The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future."

"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."

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

"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."

"I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind."

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