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“So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.”
― What Alice Forgot
― What Alice Forgot
“Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
“This was how it could be done. This was how you lived with a terrible secret. You just did it. You pretended everything was fine. You ignored the deep, cramplike pain in your stomach. You somehow anesthetized yourself so that nothing felt that bad, but nothing felt that good either.”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”
― Horns
― Horns
“Each memory, good and bad, was another invisible thread that bound them together...It was as simple and complicated as that. Love after children, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best...-well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”
― What Alice Forgot
― What Alice Forgot
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