At twenty-eight I'd had a handful of beaux, but had only been in love once, and that had been awful enough to make me doubt men and myself for a good long while.
Paula McLainI loved him for a full year and then, in one night, all my wishing came apart.
Paula McLainI'd like it if you could love me for a little while at least.
Paula McLainHow unbelievably naive we both were that night. We clung hard to each other, making vows we couldn't keep and should never have spoken aloud. That's how love is sometimes. I already loved him more than I'd ever loved anything or anyone. I knew he needed me absolutely, and I wanted him to go on needing me forever.
Paula McLainI wanted something grand and sweeping."
"The kind of love you find in novels?"
"Maybe. That makes me incredibly stupid, I suppose.
We were surrounded by people on the platform, but we were entirely alone.
Paula McLainTo hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
Paula McLainMost things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual- if one things about it, it's really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn't think things through.
Paula McLainBut in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
Paula McLainI can't see how I'll make it a year this way," he said.
"It seems impossible, I know. But when we're old and doddering, this year will seem like a blink.
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