... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.

“...was an elegant woman in a city of so many thousands of elegant women...”

“No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first t…”

“The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in t…”

“...that it was so completely their own that it would have been pointless to eve…”