Arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) - ISBN: 9781429994309