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“Here she was with Paul in an expensive restaurant, drinking the best brandy, talking of ways to make life pleasant, and she wanted to cry out to him, Reach me!
Say something that means something to me, anything. Look into my face the way Mike used to do, the way Eddie used to do, and say something to show you're here with me, Caroline Bender, not just a thin girl in a chic black dress who also likes the theater.

I’m LOVING this book. It feels like reading a combined episode of Mad Men and Sex and the City.

“There's something catching about ambition."

“She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.”