Sofia Seidel’s Reviews > Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance > Status Update

"I won't stand there, with your boyfriend, and act like he is mine. As if the joke is ours. A joke is nothing to own; it is not a house or a family or a small white dog. It's just a wave crashing over my toes, weakest just after its strongest, gone as soon as I feel it."

"But Billy realİzed he wasn't there to serve God. When he was away from the seminary, he did not miss God.
"I missed you," he said. "I kept thinking about those nights we used to spend at the beach."
i will freak out

"'What a crazy woman I was,' she said, 'thinking I could have two kids and a white couch.'" Genius.

"You didn't understand why it was cool for some girls to be stupid and embarrassing for other girls to be stupid. You didn't understand why everybody made fun of Melissa Frank for being slow and not knowing how to spell her own name, but everyone applauded Lisa for not knowing who Gandhi was."

"Billy had dumped Shelby last week. Billy wasn't ready for a serious relationship. Billy was just a boy and wanted to be a boy forever, or something like that."