“His attempt to manipulate his way into a car ride with me was adorable, in a way, like watching a newborn fawn try to stand up.”

“The way he’s watching me makes me feel needed like no one’s ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival.”

“As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.”

“I can't stand a man who fawns, you know what I mean? I can't stand a man sucking up to me, but he was the kind who took you right on the floor and he didn't even look at you afterwards when he zipped up his pants.”

“She’d always wondered what it would feel like to stand on one end of a ballroom and watch a handsome, powerful man make his way to her. This was as close as she’d ever come to it, she supposed. Standing at Diana’s side. Imagining.”

“Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”