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"Maybe one day she will find someone and together they will be weird."

"For months after he left, it made her want to vomit thinking of another woman making her husband feel alive. Phoebe had been so jealous-but not just of Mia. Her husband felt alive again. She couldn't imagine it."

"That was how Phoebe felt at the end of her marriage. They reenacted the beginning-went on date nights, invited each other to things. But she could feel how he didn't really care if she came. her presence had somehow become irrelevant to her own husband, and how are people supposed to tolerate that kind of pain? How are you supposed to go from being the center of someone's world to being irrelevant?"

"She didn't understand how she could love herself. She didn't understand what people even meant when they said they loved themselves. She honestly didn't believe them. How could you love yourself? How could you love yourself when you know every single horrible thing you've ever thought?"

"Because Phoebe is not nice. No-Phoebe was just trying very hard to be liked, even by Mia and her husband, even after the affair. She behaved like she was a nice woman in an Isben play, waiting for the audience to clap or turn on her at any moment. But in her fantasies, she didn't think nice things. She always wished for bad things for them both."

"And why is she always trying to reduce people into these knowable, tiny boxes where there is room for only one or two personality traits?... Nobody is ever like anything all of the time."