Status Updates From The Course of Love

"The most superficially irrational, immature, lamentable, but nonetheless common of all presumptions of love is that the person to whom we have pledged ourselves is not just the center of our emotional existence but is also, as a result---and yet in a very strange, objectively insane and profoundly unjust way---responsible for everything that happens to us, for good or ill."

""I'm sorry, Rabih," says Kirsten, turning serious. "I'm a bit of a bitch when you go away"...Kirsten's words act like an immediate balm. Rabih is flooded with love...Neither he nor she have to be perfect, he reflects; they only need to give each other the odd sign they know they can sometimes be quite hard to live with."

I teared up at this, why does this make me feel so seen.

Ughhh idk it’s getting hard for me to continue reading this book after the cheating part, but I still want to finish it

"At the very heart of a sulk lies a confusing mixture of intense anger and an equally intense desire not to communicate what one is angry about...We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love."