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He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this.... ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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Take me now, God!" I shout to the inky sky. "I´m ready." "You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet," Bunny says. "You cannot die married to that man. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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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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I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

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Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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