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You know, when I came home after our day in the city, I just crashed, thinking about Remi and how much I missed him. And then the next day was worse, And when you walked up to me at that ice cream machine, I just felt myself crumble inside. Around Remi, I felt like I was always trying to act like I was good enough. But around you, I don't want to pretend or hide. That's why I didn't say anything in the cafeteria that day, I knew that in five seconds, I'd be crying on your shoulder.""That's what it's there for, Ethan."Alek leaned in, took Ethan's face in his hands, and kissed him.
— Michael Barakiva, One Man Guy
...There are no ‘what ifs.’ You have to jump in. You go in all the way or back off completely. Take her in with all that you’ve got or cut her loose.
— Michele L. Rivera, Something in Return
Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.
— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
They segued into a more general piece about AIDS. As usual, they started out with footage of some kind of sweaty nightclub in the city with a bunch of gay men dancing around in stupid leather outfits. I couldn't even begin to imagine Finn dancing the night away like some kind of half-dressed cowboy. It would have been nice if for once they show some guys sitting in their living rooms drinking tea and talking about art or movies or something. If they showed that, then maybe people would say, "Oh, okay, that's not so strange.
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everyone else.
— Chris Rock
I already know you´re gay" he said. "You don´t even know what that means.""It means you love Sarah.
— Julie Anne Peters, She Loves You, She Loves You Not...
Ty removed his fingers from Zane’s back as he saw the shiver run through him, and he pressed his lips tightly together, looking up and away in disgust as he resigned himself to what he was about to do. Broaching the subject could possibly cost him his job if Zane went tattling to the higher-ups about sexual harassment or some shit, but Ty was going to do it anyway. “Anything you need to say to me?”...The visual of Ty’s nude body flashed behind Zane’s eyelids, and he spoke before he thought better of it. “Nothing you want to hear,” he murmured as he faced the mirror, hoping to diffuse the situation. “Thanks for the help,” he added, wanting desperately to get away from this tension....“You sure about that?” Ty asked as his stomach fluttered nervously. His voice finally betrayed the nerves. “Trying to be a real partner to you here, Zane. If you need to tell me something, then here’s your chance.
— Abigail Roux, Cut & Run
Baby, you’re so much of a woman, you turn me off when I hold you.
— Rhys Ford, Dirty Secret
Stupid arbitrary shit means it will take a movie star to die and a hemophiliac teenager to die before ordinary people start to mobilize, start to feel that the disease needs to be stopped. Tens of thousands of people will die before drugs are made and drugs are approved. What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of lives would have been saved
— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
If some people are “outed,” are other people “inned”? Can we say that someone has been “besided” or “overed”?
— David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
His ass has seen more cock than a poultry farm!
— Lou Harper, Hanging Loose
I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
Is this your boyfriend?" the first nun asked. Clair Olivia looked me up and down. “No. This is my gay friend who decided he was straight and single-handedly wrecked havoc at an all-boys school in Massachusetts this fall. He’s gay again and home for Christmas, so yay!
— Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight
I guess I might be bi-curious," Ben said quietly.""What?""I said I could be sorta bi-curious," Ben said loudly. "That's someone who is fundamentally straight but is curious about sex with
— Eli Easton, A Prairie Dog's Love Song
If you're a boy, any display of sensitivity is gay. Compassion is gay. Crying is supergay. Reading is usually gay. Certain songs and types of music are gay. 'Enola Gay' would certainly be thought gay. Love songs are gay. Love itself is incredibly gay, as are any other heartfelt emotions. Singing is gay, but chanting is not gay. Wanking contests are not gay. Neither is all-male cuddling during specially designated periods in football matches, or communal bathing thereafter. (I didn't invent the rules of gay - I'm just telling you what they are.)
— Gavin Extence, The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Creed scowls. "Hardly. All he does now is mope like a goddamn teenage girl. Anytime I'm home, he's in his room with the door locked. I'm telling you guys, he got worked over really bad in San Diego. I thought the whole point of having a gay brother was that they were supposed to be all cool and shit. I got a defective gay.
— T.J. Klune, Bear, Otter, and the Kid
Justin wandered over to the big fir between the coach house and his studio, and began freeing the new growth from their rust colored casings.“Why do you do that?” I walked around kitten’s nose, and came up behind him.“So they have a few more days in the sun.”“Is that why you keep trying to save me? So I have a few more days in the s
— Tara Spears
He hesitates, then says, "You don't think Otter... gets offended by what I say?" He begins to speak faster. "I mean, I don't care who Otter sleeps with. I don't care that he's a fa- gay. I don't care that he's gay. Why would I ?" He grins thinly. "He's my brother. You don't turn away from someone like him just because he likes sick instead if the good stuff.
— T.J. Klune, Bear, Otter, and the Kid
So while I drove my little and planned his fantasy night of how I was going to give Otter the key to my soul (his words, not mine), I silently panicked and wrote lines of bad poetry. Normally, I am quite adept at writing poems and lyrics to songs I'l never sing, but this stuff was just atrocious. For example:I love youYou love meThank God for thatI'm so happyAnd Ty's personal favorite (which he helped me on): Otter! Otter! Otter!Don't lead cows to slaughterI love you and I knowI should've told you soon-aBut you didn't buy the dolphin-safe tuna!TY asked me if I got the hidden message in his poem. I told him it was loud and clear.
— T.J. Klune, Bear, Otter, and the Kid
It's not wrong, pal," he said to her back. "You've been brought up to think so. Most of us have. But who are they hurting? Nobody. They're just making each other happy. And you want their heads to roll because it makes you feel funny.
— Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker
But my point is, homosexual is genetic. ‘Gay’ is a choice. ‘Gay’ is the admitting to yourself that you are not only homosexual, but you embrace it. You find joy in it. You’re thankful for it!
— B.G. Thomas, The Boy Who Came In From the Cold
I stay neutral with homosexuality
—  I neither support nor condemn it. But if people are happy with it we must not interfere.
Who knows what tomorrow bringsIn a world where everyone lies..."Tupac
— Raquel Taylor
Chomie' is South African homosexual men’s unofficial name.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Boy, dont you dare leave me. Stay with me forever and ever. Sleep with me, my love. Kiss me. touch my body, feel me.
— matt Trevitz
The tiny focal points of pain still glowed on his nerve endings, like stars coming into view one by one in a dark, bare sky. One by one—in the middle of his buttock, just below his collarbone, on the inside of his thigh—more stars came into focus, each glowing brightly at first before settling into the same intensity as the ones before, slowly forming a constellation.
— L.A. Witt, If It Flies
Joshua tried to find the right words to explain how things were--how they'd always been. "It's like... prairie dogs."Ben quirked an eyebrow at him."You see the holes. 'N' you know the dogs are around, even if you don't see the dogs themselves.""What the hell are you talkin' about?""Gay. Cowboys. They're there. Like a lot of single cowboys, they go into Billings once a month, only they ain't there so see women. There's no point in flingin' yourself around in public, 's all.
— Eli Easton, A Prairie Dog's Love Song
Are you one of his teamm
— Suzanne Brockmann, When Tony Met Adam
Day drag." Ashley answered simply. "The sun turns vampires into dust and drag queens into this." He motioned with his hand down his body.
— Kyle Adams, A Dirty Drag Collection
I was convinced that there was at least a seventy-three percent chance he was gay. I bumped it up from sixty-eight after our third game. Zack showed up wearing a light pink shirt that was tighter than usual.
— Kyle Adams, Dirty Play
Aren't all marriages kind of gay? As a man, when you get marries, essentially what you're saying is 'I will never touch another woman as long as I live, now let's put jewellery on each other and dance
— Jimmy Kimmel
Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?
— Kristen Ashley, Play It Safe
Gay men! And it's incest! With the same face!
— Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2
The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge...
— Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness
What the hell happened to your leg?" Ang asked him. Matt looked down at his shin, which was scraped and oozing and seemed to be caked in mud. "Crashed.""Crashed what?" Ang asked. "My mountain bike. We just got back.""You crashed, then what? Rolled in dirt?"He laughed. "Something like that actually. It's not a successful ride if you don't bleed." He must not have noticed the look of horror on my face, because he asked, suddenly enthusiastic, "You guys ride?"Angelo and I just looked at each other, and he seemed to realize that was a "no." "Too bad. Well, make yourselves at home. Beer's in the fridge. I have to get cleaned up. Kickoff's in ten minutes.""Football?" Angelo asked. Matt looked at his as if he had just asked if the sky was really blue. "Yeah! First game of the regular season!" We just stared blankly at him, and he just laughed and disappeared down the hall. Angelo looked at me with a smile on his face. "Four fags watchin' football. Must be pretty fuckin' cold in hell right now.
— Marie Sexton, A to Z
It feels so good to find out I mean everything to the person who means everything to me.
— Leslie Lee Sanders, Amid the Darkness
GUYS! Would you give it a rest?" Kevin shouted at them, "You're standing there feeding off each other! Dad – you're trying to prove to Ted why me and Dani are a Bad Thing – because you just can't bring yourself to admit that it isn't, even though you can SEE that it isn't! You know it! And Ted – you're pushing my dad's buttons on purpose because you're not so sure yourself how you really feel about us - her, me, any of it! So both of ya just SHUT THE HELL UP!" He turned back towards Dani, "Dani – you're beautiful and I love you – but this wasn't one of your best ideas. Now everyone just be quiet while I hit the stupid little white ball and make it go into the stupid little round hole! GAWD!"All three of them stared at Kevin while he swung. The stupid little white ball flew straight and high, and landed on the green. Apparently a little focus – no matter what it was directed towards – was just what Kevin needed.
— Failte, The Girl For Me
Jared was completely gone now, holding his stomach and laughing so hard that tears were running down his face. Matt turned on him and snapped, "It's not funny," which only made Jared laugh harder."Any of you guys strict about top or bottom?" Angelo asked, "'Cause if so, you'll screw it all up-""Literally," Cole said."And we'll have to start all over." Angelo turned to Matt. "If you got a strong preference you better say so now.""Lay it all out, so to speak," Cole said."On the table." Angelo said."For all to see.""Zach does like to watch," Angelo said, winking at me, and I was relieved that with the direction the conversation was going, nobody took him seriously."Then it's settled!" Cole said. "Who's going where with whom first? Zach, I think you're up." He winked at me. "Or you soon will be.""Oh dear God," Mat moaned, hanging his head. "I knew I shouldn't have come.""Don't worry about it a bit," Cole said. "I'm sure Zach can coax at least one more out of you."Jared laughed so hard, I was amazed he managed to stay in his chair.
— Marie Sexton, Paris A to Z
Our one employee came warily out of the back. He was always skittish with me, and if Lizzy wasn't around, h made a point of keeping his distance. I think he was expecting me to make a pass at him. He was seventeen, had stringy black hair,bad skin, and probably weighed a buck five soaked wet. I didn't have the heart to tell him he wasn't my type.
— Marie Sexton, Promises
You can stop waiting, you know,' she says. 'For what?' 'For God to strike you down.
— J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart
...our witness, one Edward Littleton, was as gay as Elton John's handbag.
— Ann Somerville, Unnatural Selection
What the hell! Either you have to get a girlfriend or you will be considered a gay.
— M.F. Moonzajer
He's experienced.He has a mind.He seduced me and took his time doing it. He's good company.He makes me think.Knowing him has changed me forever.
— Coleman Dowell, Too Much Flesh and Jabez
I love you more than life itself, Arodi, you mean everything to me. I'm lost without you. I swear by all that is holy and sacred to me that I will never leave you, and I won't die on you. I'm never going to leave you alone.
— C.N. Faust, Baron of Blood
she was lying to him.”“But she is lying to him. You are lying to him aren't you?” Darren askedas he turned to me.“Of course!”“But the priest didn't know she was lying. Afterward, Moira had to chaseJacobi down to tell him the truth and then he hit her.”“He hit you?!”“Just in the arm. And even though it was supposed to be a hit it feltmore like a love tap.”“You guys! Y'all are making me skip over the best part!”“Right, the part where Moira is doomed to burn in hell. I almost forgot.Go ahead,” Darren encouraged.
— Kaitlin Scott, For Danny
Breckin shrugs. “I’m new here. And if you haven’t deducted from my impeccable fashion sense, I think it’s safe to say that I’m…” he leans forward and cups his hand to his mouth in secrecy. “Mormon,” he whispers.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.' (Leviticus 18:22). That means simply that it is foul to do to other men what men habitually, proudly, manfully do to women: use them as inanimate, empty, concave things; fuck them into submission; subordinate them through sex.
— Andrea Dworkin, Right Wing Women
Oh, and they said I have ADD, too." He lit a cigarette, his first of the day, and took a long, grateful drag. "But listen mate, I once sucked a geezer for twenty minutes to get him off. The clock was just over his shoulder and I timed it. Attention deficit?" He blew out a plume of smoke. "I don't think so.
— S.A. Reid, Something Different
What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title—whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.
— Matthew Bomer
If you are in the closet and fall in love with someone of the same gender, it doesn't automatically remove the shame and fear that's kept you locked away. The love you are experiencing encourages you to face the reality that this is who you really are and also has the power to set you free. The richness, beauty and depths of love can only be fully experienced in a climate of complete openness, honesty and vulnerability. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, is calling you to freedom and wholeness.
— Anthony Venn-Brown, A Life of Unlearning - a journey to find the truth
He's wearing flannel!" Alan yelped. "He's shoving his straight in my face!
— K.D. Sarge, Louder Than Sirens, Louder Than Bells
Make no mistake, hiding one's true self away in a closet and creating a facade of heterosexuality is not without its consequences. It may appear to have a degree of safety but from my experience they are very unhealthy places and do all kinds of terrible things to individuals psychologically, emotionally and behaviourally.....to say nothing of projection. The damage of the fear, shame, guilt and self-loathing that exist inside a closet are often reflected unknowingly in the external life of the individual. In or out of the closet; there is a price to pay. Each individual must weigh up the consequences of honesty, openness, secrecy and deception for themselves. Coming out, for most of us, is like an exorcism that releases us of the darkness we have lived in for years and caused us to believe awful things about ourselves. On the other side of the looking glass are freedom, light and life.
— Anthony Venn-Brown, A Life of Unlearning - a journey to find the truth
Maybe I grew up too fast, maybe that's my trouble. I feel so lost out here...hung up between two worlds; half-kid and half-adult, half-boy and half-girl. And sometimes it seems like I get the dirty side of both.
— Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker
I’d like to make it clear from the start that I am gay, gay,gay. Like, when I come out of the closet, I’m usually wearingmy sister’s prom dress kind of gay.
— Gwen Hayes, So Over You
Fate wouldn't create a man that drop-dead gorgeous and make him gay, would it? Oh yes, fate would.
— Christie Craig, Shut Up and Kiss Me
Life is like a song, it will eventually end...so enjoy it!
— Emari Valdicar
If she understood the difference between referring to me as "the gay guy" and using my name, the knowledge was lost between her vapid gaze and her single AAA-battery brain.
— John Goode
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
— Francis Cornwallis Maude
Despite their exhaustion and worries, Miner and Ennek made love that night, tracing fingers and tongues over one another's marks and scars. Their bodies were like books, Ennek thought, and their stories could be read inch by inch. He hoped fervently for happy endings.
— Kim Fielding, Equipoise
Be more gay, I beseech you!
— George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
He could never know how beautiful he was in these moments, and Devin couldn't bring himself to say anything. What would he say? “I've always noticed you, but never thought I deserved someone like you?” That wasn't right. It was cheesy and over-the-top, and still somehow inadequate to describe the maelstrom of emotions he felt when he was around Sam. Mike made it seem simple, but it wasn't. This wasn't like hooking up with a hot guy he'd met on the dance floor, it was Sam. The sweet, cerebral, quiet man who'd been his friend for nearly two years and somehow managed to sneak out of the friend box into this no man's land where every word, every gesture was a promise Devin wasn't sure he could keep.
— Sara Winters, See Right Through
Dear Hope, I NEVER thought Id see the day when two of your daily e-mails sandwiched a message from none other than PAUL PARLIPIANO. My crush to end all crushes! Gay man of my dreams! OOOH!
— Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings
Stay positive. Be kind. Love your family. Set goals. Be humble. Respect all. Laugh loudly. Be honest. Do your best. Stay focused. Practice gratitude.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
WHEN YOU ARE GREATFUL, THE UNIVERSE AND THE WORLD WANT TO GIVE YOU MORE.c
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving & The Peaceful Wristband: How to Keep The Atraction Alive and His Love Growing For You
It is better to revel in life than to wallow in it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Gratitude is the antidote to stress.
— Sravani Saha Nakhro
Focus on your potential not your past.
— Mensah Oteh
Until now Psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification, but VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION is the latest to take over, Beware!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
You are a part of what we're doing. We're in this together.
— Tina Coonce
Give without expectation and receive with reckless abandon.
— Colleen Mariotti, Livology: A Global Guide to a Deliberate Life
As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets
— Terri Guillemets
Not everyone was privileged to see another sunrise like you did, so before you start complaining remember that the breath of life isn't for sale.
— Gugu Mona
Gratitude brings more blessings into our lives.
— Eileen Anglin
All anyone really wants is to feel appreciated. So if you want to create real, long-lasting relationships, do that.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Prayer without gratitude is more like complaining.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Praying without gratitude is more like complaining.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Praying without gratitude, first, is more like complaining.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
It’s okay to glance at the light of another. But when you stare too long, it will blind you from seeing your own.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
It’s okay to glance at the light of another. But when you stare to long, it will blind you from seeing your own.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
It’s okay to glance at the light of another. But when you look to long, it will blind you from seeing your own.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
How would you like a friend or loved one talking to you only when they needed something? That’s kind of how most use prayer or meditation. Since there is ALWAYS something for which to be grateful, how about praying or meditating on that?
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
I can only say God is faithful because what's happening in my life right now was said in the year 2011 in LA and that I was so discouraged, things were not happening according to my plan. God the promise keeper gave me a promise that day and I see that promise manifesting daily. Thank you Jesus your promises are 'Yes and Amen'.
— Euginia Herlihy
If you are ungrateful for one blessing,you will not be grateful for two.If you are ungrateful for two blessings,you will not be grateful for three.If you are grateful for one blessing,you will be grateful for innumerable.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Give dry bread to a rich kid and he will throw it into the dustbin, give it to the poor kid and he will remember your name for the rest of his days
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
When we don’t have money, we’re sure having it will solve all our problems. When we don’t have a relationship, we’re sure being in one will make us whole. When we don’t have our health, we’re sure being healthy will make us happy. We’re so sure about what we don’t have. What would happen if we were so sure about what we did have? Try it…it’s called gratitude.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you can live fully in the present.
— Dana Arcuri, Harvest of Hope: Living Victoriously Through Adversity: A 50-Day Devotional
You learn the value of water when the rivers are dry.You learn the value of light when the winters are prolonged.You learn the value of water when the fields are bare.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not grumble that bees sting
— rejoice that they make honey.
You learn the value of water when the rivers are dry.You learn the value of light when the winters are prolonged.You learn the value of food when the fields are bare.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
How would you like a friend or loved one talking to you only when they needed something? That’s kind of how most of use prayer or meditation. Since there is ALWAYS something for which to be grateful, how about praying or meditating on that?
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Be thankful for the beautiful moment.Be thankful for the gift of today.Be thankful for how far you have reached.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There are more glorious days ahead, this should be your joy for today.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Always grateful, forever blessed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
So thankful, forever blessed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It's time to embrace what is...and let go of what you wanted to happen
— Karen Salmansohn
Live each day with thankful gratitude.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I will be forever grateful and forever in your debt. There is no greater deed or favor one man can do for another than to save his life. So grazi. Molto grazi, mi amico.
— Peter Cimino, The Four Corners, a Sicilian Story
One who is thankful for a slice of bread is more blessedthan one who is ungrateful for a loaf.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Be thankful for the blessings already on their way. And don’t be surprised if one of your blessings is to be the blessing for which someone else is thankful.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
True gratitude ascends to the highest altitudes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you’re always grateful for what you have, then you will always be happy. The greatest reason for misery and unhappiness today is because of dissatisfaction, complaining, and being ungrateful for the things we have.
— Jeanette Coron
We should express our daily gratitude to our Heavenly Father for He's our God, He's our righteousness. He's the breather of life.
— Euginia Herlihy
I am thankful for all circumstances.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Appreciations promote inner peace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am thankful to the Lord His daily provisions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Happy soul, grateful heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God you are the only legend of love and truth that we all long for. Thank you Lord.
— Euginia Herlihy
Thankful gratitude, amazing life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
New Day…new opportunity to be grateful for what we have, not bitter for what we don’t.
— Charles F. Glassman
Morning brings refreshing thoughts.The first thought in the morning, 'Thank God' for the gift of a new day and wonders.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
— Jennifer Weiner, Fly Away Home
He went on for some time while I sat listening in silence because I knew he was right, and like two people who have loved each other however imperfectly, who have tried to make a life together, however imperfectly, who have lived side by side and watched the wrinkles slowly form at the corner of the other's eyes, and watched a little drop of gray, as if poured from a jug, drop into the other's skin and spread itself evenly, listening to the other's coughs and sneezes and little collected mumblings, like two people who'd had one idea together and slowly allowed that idea to be replaced with two separate, less hopeful, less ambitious ideas, we spoke deep into the night, and the next day, and the next night. For forty days and forty nights, I want to say, but the fact of the matter is it only took three. One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn't, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.
— Nicole Krauss
Why don’t you just pretend that the asshole dropped dead? You can’t call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys, and get it over with.
— Isabel  Lopez, Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
— Groucho Marx
It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.
— Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts
In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert."I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough. 
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.“No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.
— Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.
— E. Lockhart, We Were Liars
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.
— Morton Hunt
He was leaving my stepmother for a sailboat. Not that I blamed him. A sailboat would at least be useful.
— Darynda Jones, Sixth Grave on the Edge
Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.
— Sándor Márai, Judit... és az utóhang
Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.
— Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
— Alain de Botton
The marriage is over
—  counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake.
Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me. This was my first veiled attempt at recovery. Although perhaps I was just running away again. I returned to Glasgow, planning to say a final goodbye to Anne and get out of her life, but ended up drinking with buddies in the Chip Bar and never seeing her. I called her instead to say I was moving to London and told her she could have the house and everything else we owned, which wasn't much. I think she was as relieved as I was that I was leaving town for good.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.Enough about that.The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me.And now it's not.
— Nora Ephron
Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top? That was us. We passed each other all the time, but we never actually stopped in the same place until it was time to get off the ride.
— Diane Hammond, Hannah's Dream
Darling Daddy,This is Rose.The shed needs new wires now it has blown up.Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they will do for Mummy. Instead of you.Love, Rose.
— Hilary McKay, Indigo's Star
Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn’t matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
And I know, by Noah's face, that even though he knew it, he didn't believe it, even though we all knew it, we were all holding on, somehow, hoping they'd keep trying, that they could just keep on living and fighting. We trusted them to do that.
— Hannah Moskowitz, Invincible Summer
Henri held herself as if only her arms could keep her pieced together, and I saw that behind all her fake control—throwing herself at a teacher, carving our dad out of her heart—was something fragile. I wish we’d seen it sooner—my dad and Mr. Flynn, they had a responsibility to see it, to do better. Those moments were my sister spinning out.
— Jessica  Taylor, A Map for Wrecked Girls
Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you
— O. S. Hickman
The end of my marriage meant the end of fighting for something I believed in: my commitment to God to stay faithfully married until death, no matter the circumstances.
— Jen Grice, You Can Survive Divorce: Hope, Healing, and Encouragement for Your Journey
Endings and beginnings look just the same.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff
I have shaken loose. Like the lily, I rest on the deep water's surface. Not knowing the journey's end, I rest in nature's embrace.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff
The bewilderment is the worst part. That’s what they don’t tell you in divorce articles. They talk about anger and loneliness and growing apart and starting over and being kind to yourself, but they don’t tell you about the untold hours in the black hole of why. Why? What changed? When? Why was I the one you chose to marry, but all of a sudden, I’m not enough anymore?
— Kristan Higgins, If You Only Knew
Women withhold sex, then men make it boring and soon their marriage is over.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and The Death of a Loved One
Divorce is success. Failure is staying married to a person you no longer love.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
She must ask; she must heal, and if she couldn’t heal, she must suffer, but if there was a chance, she must take it.
— Kellyn Roth, The Lady of the Vineyard
As a divorced man, I can say from experience that there may come a time when a couple decides it is best to live separate lives: where you have different dreams and are no longer willing to make sacrifices to achieve the other’s goal.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.
— Erle Stanley Gardner, The Knife Slipped
Have a great relationship with your ex.
— Roger McEwan
Zero cavities.Two abortions. One divorce.Thirty years on Earth.
— Asa Akira, Dirty Thirty: A Coming of Age Story
Perhaps I didn’t voice my unhappiness soon enough; rather, I spent more time feeling like a disappointment and scrambling to patch our cracks than I did considering whether he required an unreasonable level of tending.
— Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.
— Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don’t regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.
— Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and the Death of a Loved One
But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.
— Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.
— Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger
—  it's not directed at the person you're currently with.
Divorce is a process, not an event. It takes months to unfold, a barrage of emotional ups and downs as denial is replaced by grief, grief by anger, and anger gradually eases into acceptance.
— M. K. Tod, Time and Regret
Everything I had been carting from one stage of my life to another, to remind me of me, was in the boxes that surrounded me. And there were so many of them now, just days before my thirty-seventh birthday. But so little left of me. At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.
— Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Some days my mantra was I will stay in this marriage because I am a Christian and Christians stay, but other days, I thought: if the choices are Christianity or divorce then I will just have to embrace secular humanism because I am not even sure I believe any of this anymore and it is one thing to devote twenty minutes every morning to praying when you are not sure you believe anything anymore and it is another thing to organize your whole life around a marriage you don’t want to be in because a God who may or may not exist says let no man put asunder.
— Lauren F. Winner, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
It turns out there is something worse than attending a wedding where you don't know anyone: attending a wedding where you know six people, and they are all your ex-husband's best friends.
— Lauren F. Winner, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what’s flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.
— Padma Lakshmi, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Trust is very hard to earn, yet very easily to lose. So, if you want people to perceive you as trust worthy make sure you always behave that way.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and the Death of a Loved One
When a man cheats on his wife or girlfriend, he breaks the spell that made him once the special one.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and the Death of a Loved One
As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you are going to be miserable, because it is actually your job.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Intelligently: Discover the Five Love Myths Hurting Women in America and the Truth about Them
Major changes in life are just the way the universe is aligning a better future for you.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and the Death of a Loved One
After a breakup or divorce, you have the power to heal and become emotionally stronger, more compassionate, understanding, resilient, prettier, healthier, happier and more successful, but you must focus on yourself.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and the Death of a Loved One
But the truth is you don't always know you're getting a divorce. For years, you're married. Then, one day, the concept of divorce enters your head. It sits there for a while. You lean toward it and then you lean away. You make lists. You calculate how much it will cost. You tote up grievances, and pluses and minuses.
— Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections
After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and the Death of a Loved One
Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man.
— Linda Alfiori, The Art of Loving Intelligently:Discover the Five Love Myths Hurting Women in America
Maybe it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.
— Larry J. Dunlap, Night People, Book 1
[Hilary] ...after you left, I didn't understand what had happened. David, I don't hate you and I don't blame you. I don't think you were happy, and I wasn't that happy either. We were just coasting, seeing what would happen, and then you pulled the plug. Right?
— Janice Y.K. Lee, The Expatriates
You move forward because you have to. Life doesn't stand still. It makes you move on until you want to move on, you know? It'll run you over if you don't move.
— Darian Wilk, Reinventing Claire
She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.
— Lauren Kate, Waterfall
When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.
— Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies
My father was gone. I went up to his suite, not to see him, but to figure out if he had been gone or left in a hurry. It looked like a tornado had visited so I assume he started packing as soon as he heard I was coming. I spit in his open underwear drawer. I know that’s nuts but I always try to leave a little something for the asshole on my visits.
— Monika Basile, Quietly Crazy
There’s never a right or wrong side in a divorce case, but, given the human capacity for hate, the breakup of a legal relationship so tied to emotion often brought out the worst in people.
— Kenneth Eade, Decree of Finality
Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood.
— Kenneth Eade, Decree of Finality
The time period in question was before the proliferation of outsourcing, but there was already Craigslist as a “ready reserve” resource. I had to resolutely disregard interesting-but-unhelpful search terms with advertising of local people looking for “casual encounters” and “rants and raves.” In the possibly more helpful Craigslist category enigmatically titled “Gigs,” I typed in: Lawyer seeks help. College drop-out preferred. Long hours, pressure-cooker environment, unyielding schedule. Pays all the Ramen noodles you can eat. Great opportunity to broaden your horizons and enhance your resume!It was a truthful description of the job, and consequently, I did not expect many takers.
— Portia Porter, Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer
Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.
— Kenneth Eade, Decree of Finality
We have a mental emergency here. Our noble pal Sevak has just been wickedly divorced by his mind.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
You often hear it said that people have bad marriages, but in fact, this is not true. Marriage is a God instituted covenant between a man and a woman, and it is good. That has never changed."The institution hasn’t failed – people are failing to work out their problems. Couples are simply giving up and walking away, or simply have no idea what they can try next. The good news is that even “soured” relationships can be healed. Things can change. People can change. Marriages can be better than they ever were before.
— Karen M Gray, Save Your Marriage: A Guide to Restoring & Rebuilding Christian Marriages on the Precipice of Divorce
After God, who is the central core pillar to any Christian marriage, there are four important marital relationship foundations. These are:* Self-Esteem - if you don't love yourself you will find it almost impossible to accept love from others.* Friendship - a strong friendship will sustain your marriage even when feelings of love are harder to find.* Laughter - it will improve your quality of life, your health and your relationships* Romance - feeling close to your partner can be the glue which holds your relationship together through the rough patches, but the absence of romance causes a void that problems will easily fill.
— Karen M Gray, Save Your Marriage: A Guide to Restoring & Rebuilding Christian Marriages on the Precipice of Divorce
They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part.
— Siobhán Parkinson
Maybe she has a wrinkle on her face in just the right place and I find it attractive. Maybe she says all of her statements as questions and I find that endearing. Maybe she swallows instead of spits or maybe I was just looking for a way to kill time with someone new over the next five years. The reasons why don’t matter.
— Garry Crystal, The Paris Quartet : Short Stories For the End of the World
There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.
— Shannon L. Alder
I lifted him out. I held him. I held that half of him.
— Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
You must be wondering how anyone could choose the left path and sacrifice their children. But it's not that simple, my dear, because when you decide to take the second path you never allow yourself to see reality as it is, without excuses. You tell yourself that if you don't pursue your own happiness, they'll suffer too; that you have a right to be happy and you only get one life; that it'll be better for them, they're young, they'll get over it. But the truth is, you make a choice and there is always a price to pay.
— Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim
Moving on means getting back on track to align with the opposite of what turned you off.
— Franklin Gillette, How to Live Life Happily After Divorce
Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly
—  eventually you land on all the properties.
Most serious confrontations in life are not political, they are existential. One can agree with someone's political stance but disagree in a fundamental way with how they came to that position. It is a question of attitude, of moral configuration. My husband and I had plenty of grievances, but it all boiled down to a fundamental difference in the way we perceived life, the context within which we defined ourselves and our world. For that, there was no reconciliation or resolution, there was only separation or surrender.
— Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
If you have to be told how you should feel then those feelings are not strong enough to make you feel alive; they become rules that don’t fit your life script. Not every person will place the same importance as you do on one of the six human needs: certainty, variety, significance, connection/love, growth or contributions. When you know what is most important for yourself and learn to recognize what need is the most important to others, then you can begin to unlock the real reason behind conflict.
— Shannon L. Alder
As close as we'd been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might never have been spoken between two human beings before, so deep we went, saying everything that was beautiful and ugly and true.
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love