“We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”

“Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”

“How were we to know we were happy?”

“We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.”

“The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. ”

“We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.”