What's that quote about relationships ending/marriages being lost?

December 12, 2015 8:18 AM

I read (somewhere?) a quote by someone (an author? poet?) that when a relationship (marriage?) ends, a little language shared by the two is lost. I've googled all sorts of combinations of these words and cannot find it. Did I hallucinate this? Thanks!
posted by Brian Puccio to Writing & Language (3 answers total)

Maybe Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut, Nation of two - not sure which quote you mean specifically, but there are a few here: http://goodbooksincquotes.blogspot.com/2009/08/mother-night-kurt-vonnegut.html
posted by arabelladragon at 8:22 AM on December 12, 2015

Best answer: Are you perchance remembering this post from the blue?

(Also cf., this prior AskMe.)
posted by mykescipark at 8:22 AM on December 12, 2015 [6 favorites]

Response by poster: 4 minutes. Is that a record? Thank you very much, those are both things I do recall now that I'm reading them again.
posted by Brian Puccio at 8:25 AM on December 12, 2015 [1 favorite]