Don't waste your time on life.
I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend
our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
The more she thought about it, the more Madeleine understood that extreme solitude didn't just describe the way she was feeling about Leonard. It explained how she'd always felt when she was in love. It explained what love was like and, just maybe, what was wrong with it.