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I could do that indefinitely: roam the streets, look up into windows and imagine myself into other people’s lives.
He wanted to be unknown, unpossessed by others’ knowledge of him. That was freedom.
When other people are happy, I don’t have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness.
my language was frozen in time.
The city was so big. It lulled you into thinking that there were so many options, but most of the options had to do with buying things: dinner entrées, cocktails, the cover charge to a nightclub.
The city was empowering. Even if a woman doesn’t have anything, the movies seemed to say, at least there is the city. The city was posited as the ultimate consolation.
And, I couldn’t help it. My heart barked confusedly with love.
