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- If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me,…
- He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or…
- She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love,…
- Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of…
- I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in…
- He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them…
- …and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.
- Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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