“Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”

“You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

“I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”

“I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.”

“The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.”

“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”

“The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.”