“I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!”
“If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.”
“Oh my God, I can't believe I actually said that out aloud".Neither could he. The fact that she saw him as so sexually appealing was enough of a surprise to render him speechless. He was numb. Even the dissonance cut off - likely reading his reaction as one of complete unemotionality.”
“I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated. ”
“If you can't fuck me while I read, fuck off.”
“I just can't find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read.”