The Poets' Wives (2014)
“There was no great ceremony in their marriage, all of that dismissed as a bourgeois decadence from the past. Later a certificate on cheap paper. Cheap as the two blue rings they bought for a kopeck each near the Mikhailov monastery even though it was still a secret and so he carried his in a pocket while she wore hers hidden on a neck chain. He was older than her and they had no extended courtship with all the flowers and rituals that go with wooing. It simply happened and felt right that it ha...d happened, so she gave herself to it despite the warnings of her friends who seemed to think that it would never work.
He lost his ring. She broke hers within a year. When she’s tempted into sentimentality she thinks she would have liked him to have had it with him at the end but tells herself that what they carried of each other was more real and more lasting than any ring. Yet early on it sometimes felt as if her friends would be proved right and she couldn’t be sure that what they had embarked on would endure.MoreLess
He lost his ring. She broke hers within a year. When she’s tempted into sentimentality she thinks she would have liked him to have had it with him at the end but tells herself that what they carried of each other was more real and more lasting than any ring. Yet early on it sometimes felt as if her friends would be proved right and she couldn’t be sure that what they had embarked on would endure.MoreLess
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