Catherine: I have carried a romantic idea of people all my life. Perhaps too romantic. That has changed quite a bit recently. I saw a great love as a kind of perfect love. Maybe it’s not. Maybe a great love, like a great country or a great leader even… is a flawed one. Maybe what makes it great is its embrace of our failings, our scars… our f**ked-upedness… as long as we are questing always for better… knowing that we will bring ourselves down as often as we set ourselves free. Maybe a great marriage is simply the ability to hold all that in one tender, yearning heart.
From The Great – Season 2 Episode 10: ‘Wedding’ (2×10) | Produced by Hulu
