Abuse-survivor Quote by Talena Winters

“When you get divorced, you don’t just give up the person, you give up all the dreams you had with that person.”

— C.D. Reiss

“I longed for it in that excruciating way one has of romanticizing the life she didn’t choose.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to…

— Marilynne Robinson

“She wasn't sure she WANTED to live happily ever after.”

— Anne Taintor

“Desire has no reason, and the need for intimacy had never stopped. I had not conjured up the images in years, his lips on…

— Patricia Cornwell

“Growing up, she felt so unworthy of having her deepest desires satisfied, of being loved absolutely. She didn't feel that way anymore.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“...love was desire and desire was an emptiness.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't,…

— Debbie Macomber

“It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sometimes it saddened her to think that she’d never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Nothing was better than coming up with new ways to make her fall in love with me all over again. I lived for that…

— Jamie McGuire

“I spent about eight hours deep in thought over whether to get divorced. That may seem like a long time to ponder something, but…

— Jarod Kintz