Kristina Drake’s Reviews > Intemperance > Status Update

“…but I know my hunger for another human form in close proximity to my own is generally and achingly called for. A conversation that disorients me orients me. I want more of that thing. I want to be teased and I want to be touched. I want a swan or to be someone's swan. I want to know and be known by a someone who sits beside me on a bus.”

“My wit and charm, however, will only dim on my deathbed.”

“The conversation then got too complicated for me to follow in French, which was just as well, since I didn't want to feel compelled to weigh in about American academia, didn't want to think about work or America at all.”