I finally figured out why I’m a writer and it’s the simplest reason, but I never knew the right words to explain it until a few days ago. I recently came upon a clip of a Susan Sarandon movie where she asks Richard Gere why he thinks people get married. He says something glib about passion, and hopeless romanticism, but she cuts him off. “No,” she says. “It’s so that we can have a witness, to everything we do and everything we go through.”
This is gorgeous.