This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

by Ann Patchett

We are, on this earth, so incredibly small, in the history of time, in the crowd of the world, we are practically invisible, not even a dot, and yet we have each other to hold on to.

“Does he make you a better person?”

had waited six months before we started looking, long enough, I hoped, that I wouldn’t just be trying to find Rose again.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for.

I have always believed that the desire for revenge is one of life’s great motivators, and my success would be my revenge against Sister Nena.

It turned out the real heartbreak of the vow of poverty was never being able to buy presents for the people who were so clearly in need.