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Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over.
The affair is the easy way out—the fantasy of believing someone else can give you what you don’t know how to give yourself.”
“You can be married and be very alone,” Phoebe says. “More alone than you are when you’re, well, alone. Trust me.”
They toast to the day. They sit next to an elderly couple with matching fleeces and Phoebe likes how they order the same drink but one with a twist and one extra dirty. They say it like they have become proud of the minor differences left between them.
Perhaps that will be the true end of the marriage, when they no longer need to know: Are you still alive?
Perhaps this week is just a special moment in time. All of them together here, in this lobby, never to be so again.
