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  1. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    People always say that things come full circle, but I think that's not accurate. I think they just come very close. You find yourself almost back where you started, but you've moved slightly. Like evidence of the time that has passed, of the things that have happened.
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  2. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    More than one thing is never true. People love to say the opposite, love to talk about inner conflict, nuances, levels of complication. But if this last year has taught her anything, it has taught her that people are clearer on what they want than they admit to themselves. They want something, or they don't. They decide to keep working at a relationship or they give up. They love someone or they love someone else. And if they love someone else, it is often the idea that they love most, especially when they haven't learned enough to figure out that this new person probably won't save them either.
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  3. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    I didn't know yet that you can always find that perfect moment right before everything shatters.
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  4. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    was like I was hurting myself and he was showing me how it looked. It was right there on his face. How it looked when we listened to our fear. Our uncertainty. When we let it be the thing that guides us. How, even if it may masquerade as safety, it almost always, ultimately, does more damage than figuring out how to do something greater, braver. Something bold. Be the opposite of yourself.
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  5. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.
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  6. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what's left is our memory of the memory.
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  7. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    quoting Steinbeck-Peter said,"'A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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  8. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you're good at. Why don't we start with that? Why don't you let that be the entire plan for now?
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  9. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    ...knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.
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  10. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way-as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.
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  11. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.
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  12. Laura Dave _ The First Husband

    A small, inexplicable part of me was scared, right from the start - of counting on someone, of trusting that he'd always be there for me - as much it was exactly what another part of me wanted.
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