Nagging

I was listening to this song while reading the bk: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern... It reminds me of the relationship between Isobel and Marco which has lasted about 18 years although Marco has been in love with Celia during that time.  The poor Isobel has always been waiting for him, though, to say goodbye. She finally left him to start a new life.

-'Over and over in her mind, she sees them together in the ballroom.

She remembers snatches of an overheard argument. Marco saying he had done everything for her, a statement she had not understood at the time and forgotten soon after.

But now it is clear.

All the emotion in the cards when she would try to read about him, it was all for Celia.

The circus itself, all for her. For every beautiful tent he creates, she builds one in return.

And Isobel herself has been helping to keep it balanced. Helping him. Helping them both.'

-“Have you ever been in love, Kiko?” Isobel asks.

“It will come apart,” Tsukiko says after a long while. Isobel does not need to ask what she means. “The cracks are beginning to show. Sooner or later it is bound to break.”