Quotes tagged ‘Divorce’

“Turns out, tragedies have a lot of logistics.”

— Rachel Miller, vox.com

“I don't know if I started drinking 'cause my wife left me or my wife left me 'cause I started drinking, but fuck it anyway.”

— Mike Figgis, Ben Sanderson, Nicolas Cage, imdb.com

“Breaking up, as shitty as it is, comes with at least one theoretical silver lining: getting the fuck out of dodge so you can get over it and get on with your life.”

— Tracy Moore, melmagazine.com

“She encouraged her husband to start Amazon.”

— Rachel Epstein, marieclaire.com

“Divorce is intrinsically hard, but our attitudes make it harder than it needs to be. Guilt, shame and a sense of failure significantly raise the emotional cost of divorce.”

— Danielle Teller, ideas.ted.com

“How do I update the image of home in my own mind? How do I unblur it?”

— Maggie Smith, nytimes.com

“What if I had poured all that time and energy into my own career? What would my life look like now? In the future, I have to set the bar high for myself and never give up on my dreams.”

— Taylor Gamble, marieclaire.com

“As a general rule, don’t work with people who are getting divorced. They’re thinking about other things.”

— Penny Marshall, amazon.com

“Cooler: She is, like, my idea of the perfect wife. We would be so happy together for, like, 15 years. Chip: Wait, I'm sorry. Even your idea of the perfect fantasy wife ends in divorce? Cooler: Yeah. Yeah, for sure, but it would be amicable.”

— Mark Chappell, Chip, Will Arnett, imdb.com

“Gray: If mom and dad get divorced, will one of us be with mom and the other with dad? Zach: What? Why would you say that? Gray: Because they are. Zach: No, they're not getting divor... they're not getting divorced! Look, you haven't been around long enough; they've always been that way. Gray: They g…”

— Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow, Gray Mitchell, Ty Simpkins, imdb.com

“Between 2008 and 2016, the divorce rate in America dropped by 18 percent.”

— Brittany Wong, huffpost.com

“I’m officially losing my mind, which is perfect. Now I will be alone and crazy, the famous mad divorcée of the upper West Side.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Miriam “Midge” Maisel, Rachel Brosnahan, imdb.com

“I want to save my life while I still care about it. I don't love you anymore.”

— Sharon Horgan, Frances, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com

“While the 90s were peak years for divorce-as-a-plot-point-movies, they were also the golden age of fictional women setting shit on fire, and I was ready to participate.”

— Nora Taylor, manrepeller.com

“Tony Soprano: So, to what do I owe this pleasure? Carmela Soprano: I don't know if you're gonna see it that way. I have asked you to lunch to tell you I'm filing for divorce.”

— Terence Winter, Matthew Weiner, Tony Soprano, James Gandolfini, imdb.com

“If you ask me, it's divorced people you want to watch out for. If someone's never been married, it might just mean they're a careful shopper, whereas your divorce will buy any old piece of fruit without even giving it a squeeze first.”

— Anne Flett-Giordano, Chuck Ranberg, Roz Doyle, Peri Gilpin, imdb.com

“If everybody killed themself because of a divorce, half the country would be wiped out.”

— Linda Marsh, Margie Peters, Joanne Jo Polniaczek, Nancy McKeon, imdb.com

“Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett: Blair, why are you so happy? Blair Warner: I'm getting a divorce!”

— Linda Marsh, Blair Warner, Lisa Whelchel, imdb.com

“We are not husband and wife anymore. We’re just business partners. And our job is to raise those kids.”

— Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams, Marty Byrde, Jason Bateman, imdb.com

“When parents fight, the child has a crisis of loyalty.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Chrisjen Avasarala, Shohreh Aghdashloo, imdb.com