Infidelity Quotes by Suzanne Finnamore

“I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Très, très, triste...”

— Suzanne Finnamore

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

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

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

— Suzanne Finnamore

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

— Suzanne Finnamore

“In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“ It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this… ”

— Suzanne Finnamore

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

— Suzanne Finnamore

“The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Take me now, God!" I shout to the inky sky. "I´m ready." "You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet," Bunny says.…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask. "Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“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…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I should have known then it wasn´t nothing , as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son,…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days.…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“People told me not to get married; I didn´t listen. No one ever listens, it seems to me now. Perhaps people should…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“How could you do that to me?" I repeat. I don´t have to itemize. He knows what I speak of. Eventually N…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“There is that, and there is also the Irreconcilable Differences line. It seems so catchall, so vague. You could say that about…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I am replete with stamina in finding out every single fact I can about this whole affair. Yet, I think, do I…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

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

— Suzanne Finnamore

“Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.”

— Suzanne Finnamore