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The Three of Us
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“pictured us content, rather than happy, because in reality, happiness is an unachievable concept designed to keep people unhappy and spending money on things they don’t need.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“In my husband I found someone for whom the bare minimum was more than enough, someone who didn’t expect anything of me that I wasn’t willing to give.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Doubt and truth are so close that it's sometimes impossible to tell them apart”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“He sees what I see, but from the other side. A woman in between two selves, undecided as to which she can remain loyal”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“We cultivated a trust that few romantic relationships can claim to possess, and we knew that we had something worth protecting, no matter the cost.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Men are instruments, not partners. Their presumed superiority over women throughout history has made them complacent and stopped them from adequately evolving, and so now they are no longer fit for long-term use. They serve a purpose and then they expire, and I need the excitement of new shiny things at least once a month, if not every two weeks.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Then there’s the third woman, the one that I see when we’ve all had a bit to drink and my wife’s friend has elevated the level of her insults and my wife is laughing at them and whispering with her best friend right in front of me. The third woman is completely detached from the person that I recited my vows to.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“I wanted to understand but the understanding evaded me. The reasoning for wanting to have a child evades me. Why would you willingly invite an alien being that sucks the life from you into your body, house it for months, then once it has violently ejected itself from your body, continue to support it for at least eighteen more years? Why would you want to shoulder the emotional burden of another person and have to teach them how the world works? When you could just get a dog and be done with it?”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Our dynamic worked: She was quietly assertive but unargumentative, happy to let me lead the way in our relationship—the opposite of my parents’ relationship: dominated by my mother despite being financed by my father. My wife and I complemented each other perfectly, grew to understand what the other needed, and provided it willingly, without request.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“I realise that having someone, someone to love and share your life with, is a nice thing to have. That physical companionship is, of course, nice. But the concept of romantic happily ever after has become increasingly alien to me, and I know it isn't necessary for survival”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“happiness is an unachievable concept designed to keep people unhappy and spending money on things they don’t need.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“A few doors down from the 'locally sourced' bakery there's a florist that assures you--via a hand-painted sign on its storefront window--that the flowers have been picked gently and with love, so that you can pass the love on. Meanwhile, inside, chopping the stems aggressively in front of you and saying, That'll be sixty-four eighty please.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“I pictured a life of upscale simplicity. A life in which we achieve the things we set up to achieve, we get what we want without disturbing other people's peace.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“To Nikesh Shukla, the man who always has time for everyone, thank you for your mentorship and generosity over the years and for somehow finding the time and energy to be the biggest supporter and advocate of everyone.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“you are so lonely that you spend ninety-five per cent of your waking hours at our house because you can’t bear spending time alone, and of course, you’re still bitter about that … thing. I’m making that face people make”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Discussions about the last New Yorker article we read or the latest Guardian write-up about the top ten Beyoncé songs and our confusion when we discover that her timeless classics are missing.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“I could have ended world hunger and poverty, saved the planet from climate disaster and negotiated world peace, and my brother’s new BMW would still best”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“Why would you want to shoulder the emotional burden of another person and have to teach them how the world works? When you could just get a dog and be done with it? Why now? I asked. She shrugged.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“And for those desperate to procreate and produce someone whose youth they one day will be jealous of, there”
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― The Three of Us
“knew when I knocked the deodorant out of my friend’s hand on purpose – I noticed her being precious about it and putting it back in the box (who keeps the box?) after every use – that she was the child of controlling Nigerian parents and that we would become best friends. I knew she was just like me, though her situation was worse, but that there was time for her to be saved, and my role was to be her saviour.”
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― The Three of Us
“but this is also the woman who once handed her own niece back to her sister because she found the concept of a miniature human unnatural.”
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― The Three of Us
“The latter has a poor alcohol tolerance but is happy to spend her husband’s money so our shopping trips are enjoyable. She has since moved to Nigeria, though, and no shopping trip is worth that long a flight.”
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― The Three of Us
“Ultimately I think she knows that. I think that maybe she’s been waiting all this time for me to save her again, like I did that day in the changing room at school. But I think she’s sat too comfortably on the periphery for longer than is fair.”
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― The Three of Us
“I just don’t understand how you expect to figure out fatherhood when you can’t even decide how to renovate a few rooms that didn’t even need renovating.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“my wife a more docile version of her friend dialled down by marriage and performed domesticity, just one hair trigger away from becoming her?”
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― The Three of Us
“talking and laughing loudly as they enter the kitchen that I paid for, with its marble countertops and clean lines, subway tiling and customised Smeg fridge, and picture them drinking wine that is at the perfect temperature because it lives in a state-of-the-art wine cooler that I purchased for money that bordered on obscenity”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
“My wife is different. She gets along with her sisters well enough, but they don’t call each other. The most consistent communication between them is a WhatsApp group that largely remains dormant, save for the pictures her sisters send to mark their children’s milestones. I once watched my wife respond to one of these messages with a red heart emoji before quietly exhaling as she archived the chat.”
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― The Three of Us
“Why did I bother paying for university for you, she said. Where was the return on investment?”
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― The Three of Us
“Her mother in particular spoke at length about her disappointment in my wife’s lack of professional accomplishments, noted that her being a housewife was nothing to be proud”
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― The Three of Us
“Our life is one of agreement and peace, but the topic of children remains a point on which we concur with differing caveats.”
― The Three of Us
― The Three of Us
