A review by shareen17
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton

4.0

This is a novel that very thoughtfully relates the course of a marriage and why people react to circumstances and behave in their relationships as they do. I rarely bother with underlining favorite passages, but must have underlined at least 20 in this book - and could have underlined many more. I didn't share all the author's thoughts and opinions, but loved much of it. "A person has to feel rather safe around someone else in order to be this difficult." "No one can hope to be strong enough to negotiate the thick tangles of existence, they maintain, without having once enjoyed a sense of mattering limitlessly and inordinately to one or two adults." "Without patience for negotiation, there is bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from." I could keep quoting for pages.