What Happened to the Bennetts

by Lisa Scottoline

“The people you love, like Pop and Allison, even the pets you love, like Max and Wendy, they never leave you, not as long as you love them. You’ll always have them as long as you love them. And you’ll love them forever. That’s what lasts forever. The love.”

‘Whenever you’re taking a portrait of someone, you and your subject are in the present, but if you’re any good, you can see their past, and even their future.’ ”

That’s the way marriage was, I realized in that moment. There was a thing you always worried about, barely a crack, running down the middle between the two of you, and you hope it will go away, but it can widen like a tectonic plate, break open beneath your feet, and swallow you whole.

‘Decide what you want and do what gets it.’ ” Dom nodded. “Nothing else matters. No rules, no laws. Not what you should want. Not being right. Not your pride.”

“Then you forgive her. That’s what love is. Forgiveness. Judgment belongs to God Almighty. Not you.”