Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.

And I’ve been really sad,” Nina added. “That I…that I meant so little to someone who had made me believe I meant so much.

Small boundaries broken, snapped like tiny twigs, so many that June barely noticed he was coming for the whole tree. With every move Mick made, as he held her, as he kissed her, June lost sight of the exact moment to speak up and then resigned herself to the pain of having never spoken up at all.

Denial is like an old blanket. I loved to get on under that thing and curl up and sleep.

If you are heartbroken right now, then I feel for you deeply, Evelyn says. That I have the utmost respect for. Thats the sort of thing that can split a person in two. But I wasnt heartbroken when Don left me. I simply felt like my marriage had failed. And those are very different things.