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“But you’ve spent fifteen years saying mean things to me and I have loved you every second of them anyway.”

“I was in love with my wife.
I loved Sadie Shaw more than words could wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.”

“I found myself hoping, in a way that was deeply, deeply emotionally unhealthy, that instead of staying out of my way, she would throw herself into it. That she would break that third ceasefire with me, over and over again.”