Divorce Separation Children Quotes

“Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I was the ref. I was the ref they didn’t know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win”
― Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

“But she knew it would never happen. She had no intention of visiting him there. Even if she were open to the idea, as Mom and Dad both hoped she would be, the mathematics of it seemed utterly impossible to her. What was she supposed to do, spend Christmas there and Easter here? See her dad every other holiday and one week during the summer, just enough to glimpse his new life in fragments, tiny slivers of a world she had no part in? And all the while missing out on those moments of her mom’s life—her mom, who’d done nothing to deserve to spend Christmas alone?

That, it seemed to Hadley, was no way to live. Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable; if she could be both places at once, live parallel lives; or, simpler yet, if Dad would just come home. Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside of her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

“Love with your whole heart, and never be sorry you did.--tdf”
― Tonya D. Floyd, The Signature Movement

“I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.”
― Sylvia Kristel, Undressing Emmanuelle: A memoir

“Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“My parents are humans too. This has been one of my greatest awakenings in adulthood: my parents being regular people, too. They have baggage and losses, grown up in imperfect homes with imperfect families just as I did. Life hasn’t been easy on either of them between the mixture of poor decisions and bad breaks; this world lacks perfection for us all.”
― Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

“Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nobody moved. "Now it's silly of me to make this all too serious," she said, changing the matter - of - fact inflection in her voice to one of levity. "You all look stricken and there's no need to be. Everything will be practically the same, you'll see." She smiled at us in a secret way, knowing how to make us giggle.”
― Brooke Hayward, Haywire

“Divorce is an expensive punishment love gets when it fails”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“If you could drink like a normal man, I would have had a child with you. But having a child with you would mean I'd have to take care of another person sucking on a bottle.”
― Margot Berwin, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire

“Most of the time we don’t need a solution to our problems or worries, we just need to be heard—so don’t stress about having the right words, but instead focus on having a genuine interest in what your kids are going through.”
― Grace Casper, Dear Parents: Notes From a Child of Divorce

“There is no 'winning' in this, it is not a competition. Mom doesn’t have to better than Dad, and Dad doesn’t have to be better than Mom. It’s not as if you are the only fun, creative, and huggable one, leaving less for the other parent to claim, as there can be shared qualities between you two.”
― Grace Casper, Dear Parents: Notes From a Child of Divorce

“Humble yourself and accept that you could still have blind spots and hurt your child’s feelings without realizing it. Be careful about the ways in which you speak about their parent in front of them.”
― Grace Casper, Dear Parents: Notes From a Child of Divorce

“Brando had twelve children—only half of them his biological offspring—whom he supported and whose educations he financed. In some cases, he was deceived into believing that children were his by mothers seeking financial support, but he ended up caring for the children despite this. In others, he assumed financial responsibility for children he became fond of, whether those of assistants or even of ex-wives.”
― Susan L. Mizruchi, Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work