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“If you can’t kiss each other, there’s no point in continuing.”
“Her swimsuit was expensive, red with an orange stripe, and snug. She was drinking cognac from a snifter.”
“He looked handsome. Drunk and bold and blue in the pool lights and silly. I showed them to him again the next day, performing a post-mortem of my own, and he still loved them.”
“The say hypnosis only works if you believe in it, but God works either way.”
“I used to say I never had regrets. I didn’t realize I just didn’t have any yet.”
“When I hear the song for the second time, what I like is its familiarity.”
“It is not necessary to be both beautiful and funny.”
“I love it when men say the word pretty … I like men to dislike me a little.”
“The word sexy is sexy.”
“So this is what it’s like, then.” “What it’s like?” “An affair. I’d always wondered.”
“even preferable, to have a domestic relationship with one man and a lustful, romantic tryst with another. One made the other tolerable.”
“I don’t know. I liked her. I found her relaxing.”
“Those women who felt safe because he was married but fantasized about him kissing them long and deep,”
“I was drunk and lying down in a Brooklyn park at night with a boy I hardly knew.”
“I need at least one person to learn the rap part to ‘Drunk in Love’ so that we can do this properly next time there is karaoke.”
“As we left again, I felt secret and high.”
“We have resolved, like most sensible people, to read more books actually written by women.”
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“She’d never believed in God, except when she heard children singing.”
“the pop of the champagne cork, the naughtiness of it, the unexpectedness of the whole morning, those beautiful long fragile glasses catching the sunlight, the surfy-looking barista bringing over three exquisite little cupcakes with candles, the smell of the ocean,”
“Bonnie must give him organic blow jobs.”
“There was a giant Christmas tree in the center of the lake, glowing with red and green lights. Snowflakes fell softly. It was all so beautiful she felt like she could taste it. When she looked back on this holiday, she’d remember its flavor: full and fruity, like the mulled wine they’d had earlier.”
“the twinkling lights of homes around the bay, the mighty black presence of the ocean.”
“He always had that distinctive fresh, clean smell because he surfed twice a day, followed by a long, hot shower.”
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“The sun was bright, and the grass smelled extra grassy because of it”
“She tossed her head and fluttered her legs like she was a captive in a monster movie.”
“The low sun poured orange through the window. The whole room filled to spilling with it.”
“Dave arrived a few minutes later, his summery baseball cap in front of his waist, sheepish, irresistibly everyman.”
“As she bows her head to pinch them on, the white line of her parting makes him smile it’s so straight. Like a little birthday girl’s parting.” & “Your heart lifts forever through that blank sky.” & “Love makes the air light.” & “His name in her mouth feels like a physical touch.” & “All soft heart. I suppose that’s why men rule the world. They’re all heart.”