““It was strange the way he loved her: a sidelong and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention. Like their first meeting on the steps of the gym, when he’d hardly so much as glanced at her. With David and every guy before David, what passed for love had always been eye to eye, nose to nose; she felt watched, observed, like the prize inhabitant of a zoo, and she wound up pacing, preening, watching back, to fit the part. Whereas Mike was always beside her.””
![“Was it possible to love a man who made you feel ridiculous? Of course […], love was complicated, that was all. Or was love simple, and marriage was complicated? In seventeen years of marriage David had often left her feeling frustrated, and furious, and disgusted, yes - but he had also made her…” quote by Laura Brodie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38c/laura-brodie-71869_death_was-it-possible-to-love-a-man-who-made-y_1519224.jpg)
