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No matter how much you look, something just beneath the surface will always remain hidden. I should know. I’ve been watching.
My sense of humor has been described as dry by some, cruel by others. I prefer to think of it as an acquired taste, similar to the olive at the bottom of a martini. You either like it or you don’t.
We’re the same in a lot of ways. Famous for reasons we’re not entirely comfortable with. Ridiculously privileged, but self-aware enough to realize it. Yearning to be seen as more than what people project onto us.
Katherine mentioned her husband several times, but—for now at least—she’s not wearing a wedding ring.
I avoid all forms of social media, which are basically hazardous waste sites with varying levels of toxicity.
The gossip people are indeed nasty. And while calling what they do abuse is taking it a bit too far, they certainly are annoying.
“By making you finally confront what happened. Because until you do, you won’t be able to move on.”
there’s no such thing as happily ever after. There’s only happy for a short period of time before everything falls apart.
“It’s hard,” he says. “Every day is a challenge. But I’m living proof it’s possible to go through life without a drink in your hand.”
“Alcoholism is an occupational hazard of being an actor, of being a widow, and of being alone. And I’m all three.”
Maybe I’m not looking for trouble. Maybe I am the trouble.
“I make jokes,” I say, “because it’s easier to pretend I’m not feeling what I’m feeling than to actually feel it.”
I still prefer honesty. And in this case, the truth is that Tom needs me too much to agree to a divorce. He’d kill me before letting me leave.”
I know how denial works. You withhold and withhold and withhold until that mental dam breaks and all those bad urges come spilling out, often causing harm in the process.
What is marriage but a series of mutual deceptions? That’s a line from Shred of Doubt.
No marriage is completely honest. Each one is built on some type of deception, even if it’s something small and harmless.
Cheating. Addiction. Secrets. Those can’t stay hidden forever. At some point, the truth comes out and all those carefully arranged deceptions topple like dominoes.
‘Old habits die hard’? It’s true. Especially when everyone you know still has those habits.
Outside of it being completely beyond all laws of science and logic, there’s the simple fact that people’s brains are capable of strange things.
