Quotes from work

The Rules of Attraction

“And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.”

“Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.”

“The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.”

“What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.”

“I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.”

“I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you.”

“No one ever likes the right person.”

“What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?”

“No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.”

“The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.”

“…and it's a story that might bore you but you don't have to listen, she told me, because she always knew it was going to be like that, and it was, she thinks, her first year, or actually weekend, really a Friday, in September, at Camden, and this was three or four years ago, and she got so drunk that she ended up in bed, lost her virginity (late, she was eighteen) in Lorna Slavin's room, because she was a Freshman and had a roommate and Lorna was, she remembers, a Senior or Junior and usually somestimes at her boyfriend's place off-campus, to who she thought was a Sophomore Ceramics major but who was actually either some guy from N. Y. U., a film student, and up in New Hampshire just for The Dressed to Get Screwed party, or a townie.”