Status Updates From O Curso do Amor

Ahhh she called him Mr. Sfouf! Possibly the most romantic part of this book tbh.

"We speak of "love" as if it were a single, undifferentiated thing, but it comprises two very different modes: being loved and loving. We should marry when we are ready to do the latter and have become aware of our unnatural---and dangerous---fixation on the former."

"Rabih recognizes that it's a mere sleight of language that allows him to maintain that he has been married only once. What has conveniently looked like a single relationship on fact sits across so many evolutions, disconnections, renegotiations, intervals of distance, and emotional homecomings that he has in truth gone through at least a dozen divorces and remarriages---just to the same person."
Ain't that the truth