1,224 Quotes About Divorce

For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

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?" I would like to do a straight exchange. But there are things that cannot be returned. Errant husbands are one of them. Wives are not. Wives can be exchanged; I have always known this.

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.

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

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

Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.

Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.

Très, très, triste...

You can always tell how successful a man is when his divorced wife still bears his name. ~ Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu