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The Story of a Marriage (2008)
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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.
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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.
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How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
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It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.
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How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Andrew Sean Greer
Born:
1970
(age 54)
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