“Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and attention, and they're doing the same to you. It's meritocracy applied to personal life, but there's no accountability.… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
“...in a certain sense, it's harder for men to say no to sex than it is for women. When a woman says no, nobody's… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.” — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“Of course, these women ought to have listened when he told them he wasn't looking for anything serious. But on a certain level, it… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“It was not always unpleasant to deal with a hysterical woman. One feels so thoroughly righteous in comparison.” — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and attention, and… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“...the belief that success was something that just happened to you, that you just did your thing, and if you were deserving, it was… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“Each time Nate saw her, Elisa’s beauty struck him anew, as if in the interval the memory of what she actually looked like had… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“Once she’d remarked, for example, that the problem, even for socialist countries, is that those people who are deeply committed to ideals of any… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“He would have denied it, even to himself -deemed it a laughable affectation- but it seemed to him now that he had always secretly… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“As he tore his eyes from the books to meet hers, he was, as a matter of fact, nearly overwhelmed by sadness. It gusted… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“I’m sure a lot of it is my fault,” he said. He smiled ruefully. “And by a lot, I mean all.” “Ah, the self-deprecating… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
“What began, after a few more minutes, to irritate him was that she didn’t even attempt to be engaging—made no effort toward wit or… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share
