No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.
The Story of a Marriage: A Novel (ed. Macmillan, 2008) - ISBN: 9781429945172