Status Updates From The Phoebe Variations

We were not stupid girls, she says. Neither giddy nor superficial. Rather, marvelously idiotic, she explains.

I was so far a living example that it wasn't all that hard to go along with a man who seemed interested in din you or was interesting in and of himself.

Watching him that day of his concert, I'd felt the vibration of his indifference to us, the audience. ... I couldn't think of how to express my longing, for what I didn't even know; when he played I felt a yearning, pure and hard.