Cheating
Quotes - God is great and God is good
“Someday
I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone
will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his
girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and
difficult yoga positions and self-realization, and make this so much easier and
more pleasant for all concerned.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Surprises,
I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I
have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“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, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“It´s
like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet,
solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know
where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was
handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one
of an unnumbered series.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Bushwhacked,
I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“He
announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and
child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say
everything clever, not to score every point.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I
played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“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. "You cannot die
married to that man.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Nostalgia
has a way of blocking the reality of the past.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“I
travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical
data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and
well-informed error in marrying this man.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Those
who cheat on their partners who are loyal to them; don't deserve them. It is a
trashy attitude to disrespect a person who is loyal in a relationship, by
cheating on him or her.”
―
Ellen J. Barrier
“I
am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how
I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about
anything, except ways in which this may still be averted.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Silent
as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and
left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room,
and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each
petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.”
―
Anthony Liccione
“How
do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.
"Keep
going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We
all hate that.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“It´s
a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this....”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“The
more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.”
―
Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone -
Especially Ourselves
“God
is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache
attack helicopters when you need them?”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I
should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight
months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I
swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I
feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate,
customized, and distracting emotional Hades.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“The
whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used
to be.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I
feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Not
that kind of cheating," Mags said. "More like...skipping ahead. If
you like someone, you should have to make an effort. You should have to get to
know the person--you should have to work for that first kiss.”
―
Rainbow Rowell, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
“Finding
out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as
discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“I
just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't
believe in myself because my thought is invented.”
―
Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life
“A
love triangle is a threesome delayed.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
