Ashleigh Reads Books Reading is my first love, writing my second. Here I combine the two.

“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”

“No matter how powerful and real your feelings may be for someone, if that person cannot fully and honestly return them and therefore actively love you back, these feelings mean nothing. Sure, they may feel powerful, deep, mythic in scope and proportion. You may “never, ever have felt this way before.” But who cares? If the person you “love” (notice the snotty quotation marks around that) cannot freely spend his days thinking about you and being with you, it’s not real love.
I know things seem a lot easier when your affair is with a man whose wife is an evil, shrieking, insulting hag. No matter what their relationship or circumstances are, you are still helping a man cheat on his wife. Let’s agree you’re better than that.
Unless he’s all yours, he’s still hers.”