“But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we’re not seeing it as the people we were, we’re seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
“If you are heartbroken right now, then I feel for you deeply, Evelyn says. That I have the utmost respect for. Thats the sort of thing that can split a person in two. But I wasnt heartbroken when Don left me. I simply felt like my marriage had failed. And those are very different things.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“The daily peace of loving plainly.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Why, until this moment, did I not realize that the issue is my own confidence? That the root of most of my problems is that I need to be secure enough in who I am to tell anyone who doesn’t like it to go fuck themselves? Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more?”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Some marriages aren't really that great. Some loves aren't all-encompassing. Sometimes you separate because you weren't that good together to begin with.
Sometimes divorce isn't an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Sometimes divorce isn't an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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