And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone you wish with all your heart were there but who is actually just a stranger. And you feel a kind of deep longing that hurts like a huge gash and your inability to fix it leaves you frustrated and angry and bone-deep lonely.
Michele JaffeI was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same
Michele JaffeI think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)
Michele JaffeThinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when youยดd utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. โGood book?โ he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, โA Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,โ out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.
Michele Jaffe