Evidence of the Affair

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

It was just easier to consider the possibility that he’d changed his entire personality overnight than it was to believe that he would cheat.

I’ve always been struck by the idea that you can’t be all that happy something has returned if it doesn’t go away in the first place.

Sometimes I think mine might turn to stone any minute now, and yet every time I see you I soften, reminded of how you still choose kindness over anger at every step.

It seems as if you see me exactly as I wish to be seen. There is no greater gift than that.

The only silver lining, should all this end in disaster, is that there is you.