À la recherche d'Alice Love

Le rêve, ou le souvenir – quelle importance ? –, se dissipa, à l’image d’un reflet sur l’eau, laissant place à des fragments de pensées qui commencèrent à s’insinuer dans son esprit, comme si elle se réveillait d’un long et profond sommeil, tard un dimanche matin.

« La vie n’est que souvenir, à l’exception du moment présent qui passe si vite que l’on peut à peine le saisir. »

Tennessee WILLIAMS

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.

She had always thought that exquisitely happy time at the beginning of her relationship with Nick was the ultimate, the feeling they'd always be trying to replicate, to get back, but now she realized that was wrong. That was like comparing sparkling mineral water to French champagne. Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But love after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best--well, that sort of a love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.