“By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.”
John Updike book Couples
Source: Couples (1968), Ch. 5
“A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.”
— Pat Conroy, book The Prince of Tides
Source: The Prince of Tides
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Variant: I know a cure for everything. Salt water … in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.
Variant: The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.