Evidence of the Affair

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us

Mick Riva

Malibu Rising easter egg

I guess I find it pretty easy to look like nothing is happening when everything has changed.

I am doing what I want.

Do you ever feel like your life got away from you somehow?

Lately, it feels like my whole life has a similar feeling to when you check the clock on a Saturday and realize it’s already half past four.

My whole life story right here

I thought by my midthirties I’d have some financial security.

Same David, same

I had a habit of collecting pennies I found on the street. I’ve always loved pennies.

We all have little quirks

Often, I feel overwhelmed by this sinking feeling in my heart that I will never be enough.

it seems clear that something is wrong with me. He even said it was likely pointless to test Ken. He said it most often lies with the woman.

Daisy Jones and Carole King.

Easter egg

I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to spend time with someone and feel like he is truly listening.

David is listening to her but wasn't to his own wife

He mostly just complains

Carrie doesn't listen to her husband

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

All my best, Carrie June 2, 1977

This is the chapter that I start to dislike Carrie. She is not understanding that she accepts how they are both acting towards eachother, that they are both finding the flaws that their partners have used against them and agreeing with them wholeheartedly; I do not like that.

I can tell in the way you talk about not paying enough attention to her, the way you sometimes say the situation is complicated.

Carrie is accepting how David is with his wife but not accepting it with her own husband. She is not looking at the bigger picture on purpose.

You are the second half of my heart nowadays,

Whaat

All yours,

When did that start??

I could no longer live in a marriage of such disrespect. That is what it had always been, I realized.

Sad that even though she felt this unhappy in her marriage, he cheated on her; she was faithful before she found out