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September 17 - September 24, 2020
He wants her so much that he’s fucking her inside his head when he should be doing things like putting on his brakes at a stoplight or discussing the influx of Japanese beetles with his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Fishman. He’s so overheated that the cuffs of his shirts are singed. He’s hard constantly, ready for something that looks as if it’s never going to happen.
... Is this supposed to be romantic? Because it mostly sounds really gross and creepy.
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It makes her stomach flip over with desire when he starts to discuss cells.
Literally everything does for her, though, Because apparently true love is being wildly horny all the time.
He’s not the kind of man who hides things, and he’s not hiding his interest in Sally right now.
So he's a creep. Got it.
it’s the New England vowels she’s never quite lost, it’s
Why would she lose then when she's never left New England
Crying in a woman’s kitchen doesn’t embarrass him;
Cool but like... You're here to do a job, so maybe try a little to be professional?
Sally can have a fever of a hundred and three before she thinks to complain. She can spend the whole night in the bathroom, brought to her knees by a stomach virus, and be cheery by the first light of morning,
And then she'll be catatonic for a week because her daughters are growing up
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Just thinking about Gary’s gaunt face and all the worry that was there makes her chest feel even worse.
So this dedicated mother would rather risk her and Gillian going to jail and leaving her underage daughters without a guardian than lie to a complete stranger because ThEy'Re In LoVe
Antonia cries a little as she watches Scott get into his mother’s car.
Fucking Christ it's going to be a week not a year, calm down
“How could you have done this to yourself?” Sally demanded.
Yes how dare you...cut your hair without asking? Truly the most heinous act imaginable.
Hasn’t she taken care of everything since—her
I mean except the parts where she was catatonic for a year and then again when her daughter dared to become a teenager and when she decided to confess to murder rather than protect them
He has stumbled into love, and now he’s stuck there.
Fuck's sake, you've had one conversation and it was technically an interrogation.
He’d like to make love to her right here, he’d like to do it all night and not give a damn about anything else, and not listen if she told him no.
FUCKING ROMANTIC JESUS CHRIST
But he’s not that kind of man, and he never will be. He’s seen too many lives go wrong when a man allows himself to be led around by his dick.
Yes, THAT'S the issue here, not that you want to ignore her telling you no and have sex with her anyway.
As Gary understands it, the greatest portion of grief is the one you dish out for yourself, and he and Sally have both served themselves from the same table tonight, the only difference being that he knows what he’s missing, and she has no idea of what’s causing her to cry as she drives down the Turnpike.
YOU LITERALLY JUST MET AND TALKED FOR FIVE MINUTES. CALM THE FUCK DOWN.
The air is as dense as chocolate cake, the good kind, made without flour.
Uh... What?
It will be weeks before this girl mouths off to her mother, or anyone else, and even then she’ll think twice, she’ll reconsider, then rephrase, with a “Please” or a “Thank you” thrown in.
The aunts can be as rude as they want but others better mind their manners
One tied iron bars to his ankles and drowned himself in a quarry. The other was done in on the train tracks outside of town by the 10:02 to Boston. Of all the Owens women, Jet Owens was the most beautiful, and she never even noticed.
Fuck's. Sake.
Owens women have always been known for their beauty,
GEE YOU DON'T SAY. IT'S BEEN REAL SUBTLE SO FAR.
she got drunk on cold champagne,
As opposed to warm champagne?
One big flash of lightning, and half the neighborhood has lost its electricity; in houses all along the street, people are searching for flashlights and hurricane candles, or just giving up and going to sleep.
And you made some teenager drive in that to bring you pizza and didn't tip.
Ben Frye pays no attention, and why should he?
Maybe because he should respect her wishes with regard to HER family instead of just doing whatever the fuck he wants?
Where is that logical woman, the one people could depend on, day after day? She
Unless she was sad her daughter was snippy, then they better fend for themselves
having? It’s love,” she crowed. “That’s what it feels like.”
Wasn't Sally super in love with her late husband? They're acting like she's never felt emotions before
