“Someone had once told her that if a man sees the line of a woman’s suntan—the strip of white peeking out beneath the strap of her bathing suit or the collar of her dress—he’ll fall in love with her. Because he will believe he’s seen her truest self, raw and pale, something no other man knows. And this was the reason she’d fallen in love with George: She could see the desperate nerves beneath the bluster.”
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Rebecca Makkai,
The Hundred-Year House
