Jan Charkow

“When they’re beautiful the way Olga is beautiful, they know they can get away with anything. There’s a simple test you can try on beautiful people. You know how they look as if they know they’re always being looked at? Well, try catching them off guard. And if you can’t ever catch them without that looked-at look on their faces, if you can’t ever catch them picking their nose, slumped over when they sit, belching, sneezing, yawning too wide, God forbid a fart – then you know you’re in trouble. Stay away from these people like the plague because they’re really not human – not until their beauty fades. And when it does, their beauty a blossom that has burst, when they realize they’re no longer always being looked at, stand away because there’s going to be a meltdown. Believe me, I am watching Olga. She is ten, twelve years tops away from being human.”
― Tom Spanbauer, I Loved You More