ADULTERY by Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho beautifully managed to bring out a philosophical subject through a passionate story.
It's a brutally honest and insightful novel about essentially wanting what you can't have but on a deeper level, it has truly more to do with boredom, lack of passion, shortage of challenges and even depression in a marriage or relationship.
He captures the essence of what constitutes real love between two people, losing and finding yourselves time and time again.

“We aren't who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don’t want to disappoint anyone: we have a great need to be loved. So we smother the best in us. Gradually, the light of our dreams turns into the monster of our nightmares. They become things not done, possibilities not lived.”

“Learn to love better.
This should be our goal in the world: learn to love.
Life offers us thousands of opportunities for learning. Every man and every woman, in every day of our lives, always has a good opportunity to surrender to Love. Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process.
And the most important lesson is learning to love.
Loving better and better...
But one thing will be forever marked on the soul of the universe: my Love. All in spite of my mistakes, my decisions that caused others to suffer, and the moments when I thought it didn't exist.”