“Each time a girl approached the table, Mortimer would smile. Like this: And each time the girl would shriek and run away.”
“Each time I did something to push him away, I was terrified it would work.”
“Times have changed.These days girls impress each other with their careers, not with the men on their arm.”
“Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times.”
“Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.”
“This is the last time, the girl thought, that she would remember these things. If they floated back to her again, she would paddle away. When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.”