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
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When you’re done dealing with a past relationship, you try to forget it all happened. You know that the good times were always limited to the memories you carry inside, and that the bad times were simply part of the package. But when you look back at your history with someone, when you can remember everything they ever did wrong, when you can bring up every single thing that went wrong in your relationship, then there’s only one thing left to do: give up.

Source: Split: A Memoir Of Divorce

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