“But in the real world, you couldn’t really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn’t see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.”
― Sarah Dessen

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage.
― Gordon B. Hinckley

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.
― Shannon L. Alder

Nice people don’t necessarily fall in love with nice people.
― Jonathan Franzen

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. –Susan Faludi

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. –Richard Wagner

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash. –Rita Mae Brown

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty. –Joyce Vissell

“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. –Suzanne Finnamore

The divorce papers remained unopened in the crisp yellow envelope. He had thrown it on his desk without a backward glance. Between his lashes, his dark chocolate eyes burned with fury but there was something else in the depths that she hadn’t seen in a long time, passion. –Suzan Battah

Losing a mate to death is devastating but it’s not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it’s an insult beyond comparison. –Sue Merrell

The leaving happened slowly, gradually, as these things do, and before we knew it, we were lost to each other, as if a magician had whisked a cloth off the table, leaving the dishes there, jolted. And when we looked back it was all a blur, time on fast forward, hurtling to an inevitable conclusion. –Kathryn Stern

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn’t matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned! –Mehmet Murat ildan

My advice to Hillary would be to divorce that chump.
—Gennifer Flowers

Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
—Lee Radziwill

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
—Mike Birbiglia

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I—supposed fruit of their love—no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents’ divorce.
—Sylvia Kristel

My mother always said don’t marry for money, divorce for money.
—Wendy Liebman

It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.
—Ricki Lake

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can’t, and vice versa.
—Rob Lowe