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“I wanted to confess to you that I recognized you from the mosaic of my yearning. I wanted to love you…to kiss you all over your body, to make it clear to you that you had come home. You sensed it, but you acted like a stranger.”

Do you know what cheating is, anyway? You can love someone and still deceive him. You can love someone and still humiliate him. You can love someone and still betray him. You can even love someone and kill him. But that’s not unfaithfulness.” I grabbed his shirt and looked him in the eyes. “Cheating is trashing your orchids. Cheating is drinking tea with Lady Morgan. Cheating is secretly giving you meat to eat

“Like all official parties, this dance shone with the glittering looks of married couples, who had their eyes on everything except the people they’d attached themselves to in the distant past.”

“after a few days, I bore no more visible signs of the tragedy, and I hardly remembered the pain. Just that my eyes had a dark look and my skirts were too big and when I sang a stone in my chest broke the song into pieces.”