“When I was first going through my separation, someone said to me, "It will take you half as long as you were in the relationship before you'll feel better." And I wanted to knock them out cold across the table. Because, of course, I was in agony. And the last thing I wanted to think was that I was g…”— Uma Thurman, redbookmag.com
“[On Nick Lachey divorce] It was hard to imagine I would ever walk down the aisle again. It was like a death in the family: You go through the mourning stage, then the rebellion, and then all of a sudden you have to find life by yourself. Once you do that, you feel complete—and that's the only time y…”— Jessica Simpson, glamour.com
“Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I’ve thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I’m also doing really well. I’d be a robot if I said I didn’t feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment… [but] You joke and say, ‘What doesn’t kill you mak…”— Jennifer Aniston, vanityfair.com
“[On Brad Pitt divorce] There are many stages of grief. It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way—cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I’m a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren’t in fron…”— Jennifer Aniston, vanityfair.com
“I love Brad [Pitt]; I really love him. I will love him for the rest of my life. He’s a fantastic man. I don’t regret any of it, and I’m not going to beat myself up about it. We spent seven very intense years together; we taught each other a lot—about healing, and about fun. We helped each other thro…”— Jennifer Aniston, vanityfair.com
“I think there are many people, many soul mates. It’s out there. It will happen. There’s an amazing man that’s wandering the streets right now who’s the father of my children... When I hear people say that they would never do it again, it’s like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Why would you…”— Jennifer Aniston, vanityfair.com
“It's all in the past. This doesn’t kill you. You move on. You can’t let the devastation of a divorce take over and win—let it make you this bitter, closed-off, angry, skeptical person. Then you’re just falling victim to it. You don’t want to shut your heart down. You don’t want to feel that when a m…”— Jennifer Aniston, vanityfair.com
“Never tell a newly divorced masseuse to 'take your anger out on my shoulders.'””— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“First divorce: wife's hidden sexuality, not my fault. Second divorce: said the wrong name at the altar, kind of my fault. Third divorce: they shouldn't let you get married when you're that drunk and have stuff drawn all over your face, Nevada's fault.”— Ross Geller, amazon.com
“Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.”— Jean Kerr, qotd.org
“For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it’s not. Now the most important thing about me is that I’m old.”— Nora Ephron, amazon.com
“Love is a decision. That’s right. A decision. Not a feeling. That’s what you young people don’t realize. That’s why you’re always off divorcing each other.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“It was good to remember that for every horrible memory from her marriage, there was also a happy one. She wanted to see it clearly, to understand that it wasn’t all black, or all white. It was a million colors.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Would I have wished that Barney and Robin would've stayed together? Sure, but most divorcees wish it had worked out.””— Neil Patrick Harris, twitter.com
“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com