“He had an extraordinarily casual air about him. I'd noticed that before, when he had tossed himself out the window.”
“He was actually interested in things I had to say, something I'd never experienced before and made me feel extraordinarily special.”
“He had a cute little gap in his teeth that I'd never noticed before.”
“When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.”
“This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous.”
“He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.”