Archive for November 26, 2007

An adequate definition

“A…marriage is a long story… It’s a continuum with moments of drama, periods of stupefying boredom. Passages of tremendous hope. Passages of resignation. One can never tell the story of a marriage. There’s no narrative that encompasses it. Even a daily diary wouldn’t tell you what you wanted to know. Who thought what when. Who had what dreams. At the very least, a marriage is two intersecting stories, on of which we will never know.”

~From, A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve