“For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.” — Suzanne Finnamore Breaking up Copy Share Image
“When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.” — Suzanne Finnamore Infatuation Copy Share Image
“The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.” — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
“I know I am playing out some tragic Greek play and I´m horrified, but the show must go on.” — Suzanne Finnamore Horrified Copy Share Image
“Much like trains in India, grief is a circular, irrational process with no discernible rhythm or timetable. Here it comes, there it… — Suzanne Finnamore Fitness Copy Share Image
“The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.” — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
“Divorce is a snakebite. One´s next thought should not be, Where am I going to find another snake ?” — Suzanne Finnamore Divorce Copy Share Image
“Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.” — Suzanne Finnamore Change Copy Share Image
“Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide.… — Suzanne Finnamore Death Copy Share Image
“It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know… — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
“I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake. I would say, "Oh, this… — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
“Next to me N floats in a parachute of his own design: He wants the divorce; I don´t. He pushed me; I… — Suzanne Finnamore Feels Copy Share Image
“They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he… — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
“What I find about wedding plans is that everyone wants to talk about when I don't. As soon as I do feel… — Suzanne Finnamore Marriage Copy Share Image
“Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in… — Suzanne Finnamore Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
“I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to… — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
“I was flying home from LA and all of a sudden I looked out at the clouds and I realized, Jesus we… — Suzanne Finnamore Anxiety Copy Share Image
“There exists a sac of skin that distends when I'm tired, beneath my eye. Irreversible tissue damage. Something stretched too far, which… — Suzanne Finnamore Late night Copy Share Image
“Soon he was online every night until one or two a.m. Often he would wake up at three of four a.m. and… — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
“ You get what you give," we will tell his sorry, selfish ass." The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx… — Suzanne Finnamore Breaking up Copy Share Image
“I am replete with stamina in finding out every single fact I can about this whole affair. Yet, I think, do I… — Suzanne Finnamore Breaking up Copy Share Image
“After you are here, I will try not to become one of those parents who brag incessantly about their children, who force… — Suzanne Finnamore Child Copy Share Image
“This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted… — Suzanne Finnamore Better now Copy Share Image
“I no longer blame Thing Woman or myself quite so much for N´s leaving us. I look at him sometimes for an… — Suzanne Finnamore Good Copy Share Image
“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 Breaking up Copy Share Image
“I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come… — Suzanne Finnamore Blind Copy Share Image
“I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.” — Suzanne Finnamore Breaking up Copy Share Image
“I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you… — Suzanne Finnamore Bunny Copy Share Image
“On the metaphysical front, the burning of sage is unsucessful. House reeks of doom, and now sage too.” — Suzanne Finnamore Metaphysical Copy Share Image
“You can hear now. Your inner ear is formed. I shout "I love you" into the bedroom. Then I feel stupid. Then… — Suzanne Finnamore Feel Copy Share Image
“The Betty Lady explains love and splitting up: "It´s like playing the shell game with Jesus. You can´t figure anything out; it´s… — Suzanne Finnamore Breaking up Copy Share Image
“God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?” — Suzanne Finnamore Breaking up Copy Share Image
“I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.” — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
“I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.” — Suzanne Finnamore Breaking up Copy Share Image
“Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she… — Suzanne Finnamore Blame Copy Share Image
“This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days.… — Suzanne Finnamore Cats Copy Share Image
“I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and… — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
“I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and… — Suzanne Finnamore Cheating Copy Share Image
