“A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there’s less of you.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Time magazine (19 March 1973)
“Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.”
Source: The Queen of Attolia
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