• It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.

    Alain de Botton: It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
    Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.