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Yet I can never believe, unless I’m under the influence of drugs, that quarrels are a natural concomitant of the state of being in love or of loving

A time of abeyance for me, I have had small ones before, but none so long or profound as this. A caesura in my life.

I am in a state of cowed abeyance, like someone who has been whipped—or laid low after pride.

He was also carrying on a desultory conversation with someone on the other end of the telephone

Like a virago, she blames me