Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

Everyone knows that when you go through a divorce, it's a really difficult time for both parties and you've all - you believe, you both believe, individually, that you've put your best into it.

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.

I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to.

I have learned that not diamonds but divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend.

Unfortunately, we are a society that does look down on divorce when, ironically, there are more single divorced people in the world right now. So, the fact of the matter is that it's a reality, and more people should obviously embrace wanting to change, wanting to move on from a relationship that just no longer works for them.

A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.

I was married when I was in my early twenties, and my former husband, an absolutely lovely man, didn't get the writing thing.

Divorce, splitting up a family, is a terrible thing.

I was married once. When the tinsel from Tum Bin' was wearing off, so was the happiness from my first marriage. Ever since, I've been wary of marrying again.