topic/heartbreak
Rachel Kushner,
Taffy Brodesser-Akner,
Jonathan Franzen,
Helena Fitzgerald,
Percival Everett,
Renata Adler,
Trisha Low,
Mary Karr,
David Foster Wallace
don't ask
[...] I would try not to put too much weight on the moments that are the worst in marriage: when one of you is in a good mood and the other can’t recognize it or rise to its occasion and so leaves the other dangling in the loneliness of it; when one of you pretends to not really understand what the other person is saying and instead holds that person to a technicality they don’t deserve.