emptiness rules core, a rottenness, a silence one retires bed without — Nikki Gemmell, Bride Stripped Bare

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An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife.

Nikki Gemmell, The Bride Stripped Bare

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