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‘In general,’ Manon says, ‘if you’re after the orgiastic experience, public sector isn’t really the way to go.’
Shouldn’t she have accepted her melancholic thoughts about unborn children, instead of acting on them?
She enjoyed festering in silence: people falling below the standards she silently set for them.
Mark told her people consistently mistake black kids for being older than they are by about four years. ‘They don’t afford a black boy the same presumption of innocence or the same need for protection as they do white boys.’
‘You cannot be fully yourself in this situation. You must reduce yourself, because the justice system that protects me is a risk to you.’
Why can’t she, as men do, say: yes, I am pot-bellied, wrinkly-bottomed, short-sighted, but I will make a play for that 28-year-old nevertheless? Why should she hide her desires inside the acceptable consumption of table lamps and Boden cardigans and heritage tomatoes as if this is compensation, when what she wants is callous and vivid?
‘Anyone who says he wants a relationship with someone easygoing, doesn’t want a relationship with a real person,’
Mourning someone is hard work. It’s so hard it brings with it a tiredness you can’t even believe.
