20:19"On a trip to New York, riding the Staten Island Ferry for fun, because neither one of them had ever done it, Susan turned to him suddenly and said, “Let’s make sure it’s always like this.” And so entwined were their thoughts at that point that Ted knew exactly why she’d said it: not because they’d made love that morning or drunk a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé at lunch—because she’d felt the passage of time. And then Ted felt it, too, in the leaping brown water, the scudding boats and wind—motion, chaos everywhere—and he’d held Susan’s hand and said, “Always. It will always be like this." —
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
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..And then I think twenty years into their marriage, they stop loving each other. Susan forgets. “Brainwashed,” “gone,” says Ted with a soft, helpless sorrow. And as he looks at the Orpheus and Eurydice relief at the Museo Nazionale, he feels the lostness enclosing him. Passion folded up into a minute piece of paper, frittered away.
-q
20:46"Marla’s philosophy of life is that she might die at any moment. The tragedy, she said, was that she didn’t." — Fight Club (via the-rx)
