Isn't love a beautiful goddamn liar?
Paula McLainI hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You can see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart.
Paula McLainDon't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.
Paula McLainI want to write one true sentence', he said. 'If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.
Paula McLainA week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same.
Paula McLainI put some nice thick socks and my Alpine slippers and then curled up in a chair by the fire to read The Beautiful and Damned. 'Fitzgerald's a poet', Shakespear had said when she recommended it, […]. The writing was exquisite, I had to admit, but it was making me sad to read about Gloria and Anthony. They talked prettily and had nice things, but their lives were hollow. I didn't have the stomach for such a dire picture of marriage, not just now.
Paula McLainIf you guys can't make it, what chance do the rest of us have?
Paula McLainWhat's wrong with all of us, Bill? Can you tell me that?'
'Hell if I know', he said. 'We drink too much for starters. And we want too much, don't we?
Because it's not always easy to know how to live.
Paula McLainI love you now more than I ever have in some ways and though different people view their marriage vows differently, I meant mine to the death. I'm ready to be yours forever if you must know it, but since you've fallen in love and want to marry someone else, I feel I have no choice but to move aside and let you do that.
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