Life After Divorce Quotes

“In the months after the relationship ends, a person can seem to grow at a lightning rate, like in a nature documentary where weeks of footage is run at high speed to show a plant unfurling in seconds, but in reality the person has been growing all along, under the surface, and it is only in their new freedom, in their hair-raising aloneness, that the person can allow for these underground things to break through and unfurl themselves in the light.”
― Nicole Krauss, Forest Dark

“You are the gatekeeper to your life and your home. You get to decide who or what comes in and what needs to stay out. If it doesn't contribute to the peaceful home you are now trying to have, then it should stay out.”
― Jen Grice, You Can Survive Divorce: Hope, Healing, and Encouragement for Your Journey

“I decided to create a home from scratch, something that would reflect my tastes and preferences with a combination of objects and energy that would add up to a safe and inviting space for the people and experiences I wanted to welcome into my life.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Instead of assembling the shattered pieces of my outer existence and inner reality into an incomprehensible structure, I learned to consciously create a new life.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Going inward was not easy. By looking outward, I could create my ideal home, a dream that I had previously deferred in the interest of family harmony.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Books have always been my best companions. They have not only provided entertainment but also served as wise, nonjudgmental mentors whenever I needed advice. The problem with my situation was that I had not come across a single book to guide me or at least accompany me as I laid out the roadmap for the rest of my life. In fact, I had no idea how I had arrived at this unfamiliar crossroad. I certainly did not deserve to be in this predicament.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“The light at the end of this seemingly never-ending dark tunnel that I had entered, was on the other side of understanding. The clarity I was seeking was within my reach.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“No one cared that my little world had come crashing down. I could cry if I wanted to, but I still needed to hold up the small piece of it that depended on me.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“I needed to find out if I still had a motherlode of gratitude buried somewhere in my psyche. I would have to first clear the debris of disenchantment, clear the path and allow that small trickle to come through.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“A place can be a living, breathing thing. It can shimmer with joy or with maleficence.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Like an intermission during a long movie, I was waiting for my “real” life to resume. I had never penciled in such a detour in any list I had made for my life.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“There were days when I did not feel any pain. Perhaps there was a scar that would always mark the wound, a reminder of what had changed, but it did not stop me from moving, growing, and becoming more of myself.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Every day, no matter how productive or ordinary, was still a reminder of all that was different from the life I had imagined.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“For the time being, I had a good job, a supportive boss, and some measure of stability—and I could breathe again. What I needed to learn next was how to live with the ambiguity of the future. I had to decide how to release my parents to get on with their lives while I also got on with mine, with or without their reassuring presence.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“The aftermath of a disaster brings a special kind of clarity about what is important and what is truly valuable.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“In my new life I was chef, chauffeur, working woman, mother, daughter, neighbor, friend. Driving was just one of those things I had mastered.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“With no step-by-step guidance or role models, I had stumbled and fallen and picked myself up. I had survived. I had thrived. All along, I had moved one day at a time, one considered step followed by another, one morning followed by another night. Each day had been an improvement from the day before.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“Like a child building a new toy with a heap of Lego blocks, I reassembled the useful pieces from the debris of my old life with patience, persistence and a strong belief that a better life was possible.”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery