Quotes From "The Divorce Party" By Laura Dave

Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all...
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Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again. Laura Dave
Why does it take fear to move you? Why does...
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Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do? Laura Dave
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People don’t break up because someone’s family is a little .. . messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married. Laura Dave
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You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it. Laura Dave
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There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future. Laura Dave
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We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job Laura Dave
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These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept. Laura Dave
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Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be. Laura Dave
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Beauty won’t protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can’t plan for. The one thing you can’t save for or search for or even find. It has to find you and decide to stay. Time. More of it. More of it to try and make things right. Laura Dave