“Here was this really nice guy who happened to be uber-shy... and with just a little encouragement, he was suddenly smiling and joking and having fun. Really, what had taken them so long?”
“So, I had an epiphany...but it is probably really obvious to you. I've been acting obsessed over a guy who it turns out is just that a guy and what I really need to do is just let it go.”
“Mark has the most long-term perspective I’ve ever seen. This guy is uber uber uber on the long-term view.”
“But now the world, he thought, had taken them. He knew that this could suddenly happen. One day you just woke up, and there was somewhere that you needed to be.”
“He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicatd meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.”
“He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.”