I want you to understand the difference, because I think it’s going to matter to you at about thirty-five.

The affair is between you and him and it’s ugly and it’s ordinary and half this town has one going on right now.

“What you did to me is that you sat in my kitchen for eight months and let me be kind to you.”

Chloe Bellagio put her head down on my dining room table and sobbed like a child.

Nobody comforted her.