You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.

Nice,' I say, realizing only afterward that I've mimicked her, a bad habit of mine; I'm like one of those animals that imitates its predators to survive.

You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

We are all children until our fathers die.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.