You Will Know Me

hadn’t taught her—that the things you want, you never get them. And if you do, they’re not what you thought they’d be. But you’d still do anything to keep them. Because you’d wanted them for so long.

She thought of Eric on the phone with her. The two of them plotting together. It was like finding him in bed with her, with anyone

Because there’s a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there’s no end to the ways love can.

But I sometimes wonder, to this day, if courage is just another word for desperation.
—Nadia Comaneci, Letters to a Young Gymnast

Her demon lover

So many things you never think you’ll do until you do them

And she said, “You either tell me everything or you leave now.”
And then he was gone.

Married a long time, you think there will never be any surprises again, at least not those kinds. But you are wrong.

how you can be married to someone your whole life, it feels like, and not know them at all.

His face shimmered forth in the dark, tanner than the day before, the grand slope of eyes sorrowful. Handsome as ever, maybe more. So much so he took her breath away. And she felt sick from it.