A lover exists fragments, a dozen romance new, a thousand married him, — Andrew Sean Greer, Story a Marriage

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A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.

Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage

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