Roman Clodia’s Reviews > Revolutionary Road > Status Update

"I think you're probably a meddling, tiresome woman, possibly a latent lesbian, and very definitely" - he laid a dollar bill on the table - "very definitely a pain in the ass."
~ Frank Wheeler: what a charmer!

'There was a long silence before she said, in a pointedly neutral tone: "You mean I'm emotionally disturbed." '

'Course, that's partly because I didn't listen. You know how she is? How she talks and talks and talks and never says anything? Kind of get so you quit listening after a while.'

'I mean, you seem to be doing a pretty good imitation of Madame Bovary here... I don't happen to fit the role of dumb, insensitive, suburban husband'

'... time and again they read the promise of failure in each other's eyes'