Fates and Furies

I don’t think I was ever afraid that loving both of them made me a bad person. I was afraid that loving Sam made me a bad person. I was afraid that I would pick Sam. That my heart would love Sam. That my soul would need Sam. You’re not supposed to forsake the man who journeyed home to you. You’re supposed to be Penelope. You’re supposed to knit the

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He knew it would make no sense to his wife, and having the pages out of his hands made him feel like he’d lost part of himself. Days went by without Julia mentioning the book, and she seemed to go to great effort not to meet his eyes. The fog that had arrived with William’s injury returned to his peripheral vision, like cloud cover circling a mount

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Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want you to be my best friend and my trusted confidant and my passionate lover to boot, and we live twice as lon... See more