“He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.”
“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”
“...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.”
“In case you didn't notice me, I'm the less attractive friend to the right.”
“She attracted him more than he liked.”
“What was the matter with her? She'd already decided she didn't want to make love with him, so why did she keep conjuring up erotic scenes from old sheikh movies? It must be the wine.”