The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

If the definition of enjoying sex means that it is pleasurable, then I’ve had a lot of sex that I didn’t enjoy. But if we’re defining it as being happy to have made the trade, then, well, I haven’t had much I hated.

People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me”—that’s intimacy.

“That, in and of itself, is awfully cynical, don’t you think? Divorce is loss.” Evelyn shakes her head. “Heartbreak is loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”