“So…he makes her happy.” Coley wasn’t looking at me. His eyes were unfocused, thoughtful. “But she’s not happy right then…she has no joy…because it feels…quick? Like, insubstantial, maybe?” “Insubstantial! Yes! Perfect. In fact, Romeo uses that same word later. She finally tells him she loves him back and it sounds too good to be true, almost like a dream, and he says it’s ‘too flattering sweet to be substantial.’”
