Every Wednesday I take a sentence or paragraph from something that I’ve written in the last week and post it entirely without context.
This week:
When they’d spoken about this kind of thing, playing idle what-ifs after hearing about the indiscretions of their more turbulent friends, she’d always said that if she loved someone she could always forgive him. In the long shadow cast by the affair, however, she realised that forgiveness was not the key: it was trust.
Simon John Cox 