She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.

Things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

I can't imagine what my life was before. I can't imagine ever being without you for very long again.

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.

But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.