Silent Wife

You make your choices when you’re far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows.

Death should be a seduction, not a rape.

Love after all is indivisible. Loving one more doesn’t mean loving another less. Faith is not a construct but something you carry inside you.

A passing fling is one thing, sex with a prostitute is one thing, but dividing your loyalties as a way of life is a faithless path to take and one that can only end badly.

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she’s given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take. Her mother had a reason. Every woman has a reason.

Words are like tools, easily turned into weapons, creating closure where none is needed. Life is not words. People by nature are awash in ambivalence, swept along by winds that are fickle and skittish.

That’s his pattern, and everyone knows that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

one thing she knows for sure is that home is important to him. Not just for Todd but for most men, home is the counterpoint that gives an affair its glamour. An affair by definition is secret, temporary, uncommitted, not leading to the complications of a longer-term arrangement—and thus its appeal

Life is a mosaic of everything, and there are no clean edges either. In the mosaic of life things overlap because nothing is all one way.

Jodi’s great gift is her silence, and he has always loved this about her, that she knows how to mind her own business, keep her own counsel, but silence is also her weapon.