The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Do you understand what I’m telling you? When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that

People think that intimacy is about sex.

But intimacy is about truth.

When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me”—that’s intimacy.

Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.

And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine. That you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.”

But I wanted to push the envelope.

“What are you getting at?”

And the devastating luxury of panic overtook me again

“If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you,”

People think that intimacy is about sex.

But intimacy is about truth

I broke Celia’s heart because I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.