“elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid,”
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
“I make this stuff up. But then I feel the stray voltage of my rented charisma, hear the jerry-rigged authority in my voice, and”
― Birds of America: Stories
― Birds of America: Stories
“There was something animated in his eyes, like pond life.”
― Birds of America: Stories
― Birds of America: Stories
“I live in dread of being asked to clap along to music in a public place.”
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
“Lonely people are terrible snobs about one another, I’ve found. They’re afraid that consorting with their own kind will compound their freakishness.”
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
― Notes on a Scandal: What Was She Thinking?
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