He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.

Pam: "Claude, the mouthwateringly beautiful asshole?

And you are mine, and you will be mine. They will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.

As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.

Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly

I could just envision Sam imagining that I wanted him to go out to the lake with me, only to be confronted by Jannalynn and whatever she thought of as a romantic dinner -- live rabbits they could chase together, maybe.