Apples Never Fall

by Liane Moriarty

Pearl Becker never would find the happiness that had continually eluded her, and their relationship would remain a puzzle forever unsolved.

When they first started dating, he used to call her beautiful all the time, and she’d snap at him because it embarrassed her, it made her feel as if she needed to urgently call out to a derisive audience, Don’t laugh, I know it’s not true! So eventually he stopped saying it, and now it broke her heart to realize that she’d successfully trained her beautiful boyfriend not to call her beautiful.