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distinctly remember hearing Ben use the word “shed” when we walked into it, and I ignored him the way you do when you’re trying to stay married.
If someone leaves you, it’s because they didn’t want to be with you. All you lost was someone who didn’t want to be there anyway.”
At the corner of arrogance and cluelessness, you find the worst kind of person.
“Have you ever felt like you’re disappearing?” he asks. “Like you’re sure one day you’re going to wake up and find that the truest parts of yourself have been replaced by someone else’s plans?” Um, I just wrote a movie about it. I believe you read the script? How many times did I wake up next to Ben and wonder, Where did I go? His face would reflect either indifference or mild distaste, and I’d try to remember back when I was a person who deserved to be loved. I didn’t know what Ben was looking at, but it wasn’t me. I was gone.
“I think he’s the best kind of villain,” Leo says. “He’s the kind of villain who does something horrible but who we still love. You can see his humanity, even though he’s taking advantage of those boys. Characters like Fagin get to the core of what it means to be a human being—we are both light and dark.”
Newton must have been thinking of twentysomethings in long-term relationships with hard-to-secure wedding venues when he decided that objects in motion tend to stay in motion.
I think our whole marriage was about me trying to make him glad he picked me.
“Are you ever lonely?” “Not as lonely as I was when I was married to Ben.”
“This is my dad’s favorite thing to talk about—personal responsibility. If you own up to not being perfect, life gets easier.
it was clear he didn’t love me anymore, and it’s not like you can talk someone into loving you again.”
People want to interview me, but I’m pretending to be reclusive and hard to get. God knows I’m not the latter.
Maybe there are moments where people come together and you can just seal them in their own space while you move on with your life. Maybe what we had was a secret you keep hidden in a book to take out and ponder on your birthday.
And second, that the best things come back. Sometimes it’s right after the commercial, sometimes it takes longer. But time and sunshine bring growth, and life unfolds just the way it’s supposed to.
