I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
Curtis SittenfeldBefore and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.
Curtis SittenfeldWhen you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
Curtis SittenfeldThere's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.
Curtis SittenfeldAfter I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would have seen that,’ I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances had prevented our kissing, I thought maybe this was why you told stories to other people – for how their possibilities enlarged in the retelling.
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