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"And yet, we should insist, none of this has anything much yet to do with a love story. Love stories begin not when we fear someone may be unwilling to see us again but when they decide they would have no objections to seeing us all the time; not when they have every opportunity to run away but when they have exchanged solemn vows promising to hold us, and be held captive by us, for life."
— Jan 04, 2026 09:46AM
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Chloe
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"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."
— 22 hours, 22 min ago
Chloe
is on page 85 of 240
""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.
— 22 hours, 37 min ago
I teared up at this, why does this make me feel so seen.
Chloe
is on page 63 of 240
"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."
— Jan 05, 2026 08:26PM
Chloe
is on page 44 of 240
"How logical, then, that we should as adults find ourselves rejecting certain candidates not because they are wrong but because they are a little right...We chase after more exciting others, not in the belief that life with them will be more harmonious, but out of an unconscious sense that it will be reassuringly familiar in its patterns of frustration."
— Jan 04, 2026 07:52PM
Chloe
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"The remark is hardly off-putting for Rabih, who reminds himself of the maxim that cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards."
— Jan 04, 2026 09:43AM
