“What did one do after having a one-night stand (or, in my case, one-afternoon stand) with the school's biggest man-whore?”
“The biggest person is the last one standing.”
“Dahlia, this is, was, in no way a one-night stand on my part.”
“In all my old school pictures I was always the one standing alone in the back with my hair in my face.”
“There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.”
“Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly.”