“There are two kinds of flowers when it comes to women,” Eve said. “The kind that sit safe in a beautiful vase, or the kind that survive in any conditions . . . even in evil. Lili was the latter. Which are you?”
This was where I could tie up all my various themes into one lovely little package: my variously flower-named characters, Baudelaire's “Flowers of Evil”, and the steady flowering that tough women manage to do under immense pressure. Eve thrived in evil because it was thrive or die, but Charlie must make a more deliberate choice: what kind of woman does she want to be? This is one of the first moments that Eve—who has steadfastly (and profanely!) refused to act as a mentor to this girl who has barged into her life—finally offers Charlie some words of guidance to help her make that choice.
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