If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.
Curtis SittenfeldShe opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold โ I wanted my life to start โ but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
Curtis Sittenfeld