“ A second date always felt like an announcement at his age. And he never felt ready for the announcement. ”
It is not aloofness, superiority. It’s a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn’t want to gather close her comrades?
~ Megan Abbott
It is simple as this: she has a complicated life and her clothes can't help but show it. It is all part of her unique disheveled glamour.
...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change.That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard.
...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can.