“antsy, adj. I swore I would never take you to the opera again.”
“Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.”
“I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...”
“Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.”
“flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.”
“I swore we'd never be together, but—''Your inner whore would not be denied.' she finished.”