We’re already separated that’s official but there’s still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.
What worked yesterday doesn’t always work today.
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door.
There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations.
I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn’t wake him to share in my distress.
Equally disquieting are the times when we do make a choice, only to later feel as though we have murdered some other aspect of our being by settling on one single concrete decision.
I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.
Oh, cold world – I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.
I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.
Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you’ve got to swim the moat.
Whatever this feeling is – this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.
My face is a transparent transmitter of my every thought.
Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.
So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.
I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?
Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it’s more like love’s shady second cousin who’s always borrowing money and can’t hold down a job.
It’s so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it’s been polluted.