She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.
Jennifer EganHe gestured at the girl I'd been dealing with, whose carefree smile could be roughly translated as: 'He's officially not my problem anymore.' I gave her a wink whose exact translation was: 'Don't be so sure, darling.
Jennifer EganBennie has light brown skin and excellent eyes, and he irons his hair in a Mohawk as shiny black as a virgin record.
Jennifer EganTags: jenniferegan
I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.
Jennifer EganIt wore on Stephanie more than she'd expected, dropping off Chris for kindergarten, waving or smiling at some blond mother releasing blond progeny from her SUV or Hummer, and getting back a pinched, quizzical smile whose translation seemed to be: Who are you again? How could they not know, after months of daily mutual sightings? They were snobs or idiots or both, Stephanie told herself, yet she was inexplicably crushed by their coldness.
Jennifer EganTags: a-visit-from-the-goon-squad
Time's a goon right?You gonna let that goon push you around?
Jennifer EganAnd for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire.
Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light.
"See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
At the beginning he’d thought of his style as being his essence, the perfect expression of who he was inside, but lately the styles had started to feel like disguises, distractions Danny could move around behind without being seen. 27
Jennifer EganTags: the-keep
A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?
Jennifer EganTags: lust repetition
She'd risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life.
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