Jessica Smock > Quotes

“I wasn’t divorcing, but we have no language for the collapse of a friendship. No civil or legal understanding exists to encircle, protect, or declare its existence. No public ceremonies seal the relationship or shore it up when rocks pierce the hull and we have to swim for shore, the sound of wreckage and cold seawater filling our ears.”
― Jessica Smock, My Other Ex: Women's True Stories of Losing and Leaving Friends

“Simply put—losing a beloved soul sister sucks.”
― Jessica Smock, My Other Ex: Women's True Stories of Losing and Leaving Friends

“During the first days and weeks following the loss of a friendship, when the fact of it is so raw and sharp, we’ve learned from women that it’s typical to feel most alone, to feel embarrassed, depressed, shocked, and obsessed with why and how it happened. You often feel heartbroken, as if you’ve lost a great love. And you have. Not a romantic partner but a trusted holder of your secrets and truths.”
― Jessica Smock, My Other Ex: Women's True Stories of Losing and Leaving Friends

“I miss her conversation, even though I know I’m better off without her words or thoughts or opinions because we were never friends.”
― Jessica Smock, My Other Ex: Women's True Stories of Losing and Leaving Friends

“Aristotle described it in a more palatable and polite way when he said that friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Jessica Smock, My Other Ex: Women's True Stories of Losing and Leaving Friends

“If grief were a gender, it would certainly be a woman, because the only thing besides a woman that seeks to permanently invade the depths of your soul is the infinite emotion of grief.”
― Jessica Smock, My Other Ex: Women's True Stories of Losing and Leaving Friends

“How do you grieve a heart that beats just out of your reach?”
― Jessica Smock, My Other Ex: Women's True Stories of Losing and Leaving Friends