“A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.”

American novelist and short story writer

Andrew Sean Greer is an American novelist and short story writer known for his fiction and for winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Less. He is also the author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times described as an inspired, lyrical novel, and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award. His work has drawn attention for its literary style and for the range of novels and stories he has written.