I´m QUOTES

1 " Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you. "

― Elizabeth Scott , Bloom

2 " I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending? "

― Suzanne Finnamore

3 " 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. "

4 " How can I grieve what is still in motion?" I ask her. " Shoes are still dropping all over the place. I´m not kidding," I say. " It´s Normandy out there. "

5 " This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted and no one is going to acknowldege it, that´s certain. I´m expected to be Brave and Rise Above. I dress for the role; I must look far better now that I did when I was married. I must look pulled together into a nice tight Hermès knot of self-containment. I don´t make the rules; I just do my best to follow them. "

― Suzanne Finnamore , Split: A Memoir of Divorce

6 " To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage of late-night mail-order retail purchases placed from the couch. The couch has officially become my second battle station. I am angry and I have credit And I´m all blackened inside; I should wear a pointy witch hat around Larkspur as I go to the bank and drop A off at day care. It would be more honest. "

― Suzanne Finnamore , Split: A Memoir of Divorce

7 " I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she's free and can stand on her own feet. I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he's willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life. "

― W. Somerset Maugham , The Painted Veil

8 " People told me not to get married; I didn´t listen. No one ever listens, it seems to me now. Perhaps people should stop trying to communicate. N was not a communicator; early on, I´d insisted on communication. Now I see his point acutely. I would love to have him back to not communicate with me. I would never ask for communication again, I would simply go elsewhere for the deep fish. Also, I´m not at all sure I want to hear what he has to say in this new vista. This works out well. "

― Suzanne Finnamore , Split: A Memoir of Divorce

9 " I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enough of humanity at the
racetracks, the supermarkets, gas stations, freeways, cafes,
etc. This can´t be helped. But I feel like kicking myself in
the ass when I go to gatherings, even if the drinks are free.
It never works for me. I´ve got enough clay to play with.
People empty me. I have to get away to refill. I´m what´s best
for me, sitting here slouched, smoking a beedie and watching
this creen flash the words. Seldom do you meet a rare or
interesting person. It´s more than galling, it´s a fucking
constant shock. It´s making a god-damned grouch out of me.
Anybody can be a god-damned grouch and most are. Help! "

― Charles Bukowski , The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

10 " For the first time, I´m not just nervous about what´s to come; I´m scared. "

― , The Rise of Nine (Lorien Legacies, #3)

11 " I like to comepletly give in to the emotion. If i pretend I´m not sad, if I try smiling through it,and pretend like everything´s fine, it makes it worse. When i give in and let it out, I feel better. "

― Michelle Madow , Diamonds are Forever (The Secret Diamond Sisters, #3)

12 " Who needs mail? If it doesn´t come in an Amazon box, I´m not interested. "

― Alexa Riley , Snow and Mistletoe

13 " I try to do what makes me happy and safe. Everyone who judges does so from the outside. They don´t help me pay my bills, they don´t come to feed me when I´m sick. Why live for people who don´t care about us unless I´m living in a way they approve of? "

― Amelia LeFay , The Anatomy of Jane (WJM, #1)

14 " When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don´t go. I´m too worried to go. I don´t want to interrupt my worrying to go. "

― J.D. Salinger , The Catcher in the Rye

15 " You´re my son, Ed. You might be idiotic and irresponsible, but it doesn´t make the slightest difference to what I feel for you. I´m pissed off that you could have thought it would "

― Jojo Moyes , One Plus One