Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
I hate weddings,′ she says. ‘They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.
Nice,′ I say, realizing only afterward that I’ve mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I’m like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.
He said, “People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.
She said that her father’s death had been the hardest thing in her life. “We are all children until our fathers die.
You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol of the ladies room door.
He loves New York, he says. ‘It’s like Oberlin – it’s where people who don’t belong anywhere belong.