Barb’s Reviews > The Bright Years > Status Update

Ryan clicks his tongue. "Yikes, science. Can't help you there". Like he has ever helped with her homework. How can he say and so such normal things when he's said and done such awful ones?

Much of marriage is some permutation of mismatched desires, like a three-legged race. And desires become indistinguishable. But if perfect understanding of our motives were a prerequisite to action, the world would be motionless.