I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

“Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too you…”

“she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its …”

“The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.”

“But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender throug…”