“ I am sure we both loved a different man. Because a lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we’ve married him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled in by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. ”
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Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage: A Novel (via psychotherapy)
This quote makes love sound so tragic and so terribly romantic.
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