Status Updates From Aftermath: On Marriage and ...

“And feeling a kind of consternation at its diffusity, its lack of centralised power”

“An argument is only an emergency of self-definition, after all.”

Starting off strongly.

"And the question of blame, always so delicate where it is in the nature of things to break down, is altered by this new piece of evidence. It's beginning to look like carelessness, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde. For a tooth properly looked after, ought to be able to last a lifetime."

"Pain is so vivid, yet the stupor of recovery is such that pain's departure often goes unnoticed.

"Better, in Mrs Lewis's view, to live the compartmentalised, the disorganised life and feel the dark stirrings of creativity, that to dwell in civilised unity, racked by the impulse to destroy."