Ian’s Reviews > Middlemarch > Status Update

Marriage 1: guy dies but he sucked. Yay
Marriage 2: poor communication leading toward resentment and stonewalling. John Gottman, help!
Couple 3: those two you just want to openly speak their feelings so they can be together…but they can’t because it’s England where feelings are a terrible bother.
Triangle 1: girl feels tied to guy who needs to grow up. Older guy #2 is better but who will win!? We will see.

Awesome line

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful for us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.”

Communication is a hot topic in marriage and dating these days; as it turns out, 19th-century English people struggled in this area too.

“Men outlive their love, but they do not outlive the consequences of their own recklessness.”