I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third.

Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

She was incurably dishonest.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.