My Husband

by Maud Ventura

I don’t know of any fictional heroine who can show me how to behave. There are plenty of despairing lovers who sing about loss or rejection. But I don’t know of any novel, any film, any poem that can serve as my example, show me how to love better, less intensely.

this quotation by the philosopher Blaise Pascal came back to me with terror: “If we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.”