Uncommon Type

Flirting is fishing. Maybe you hook up, maybe you don’t. Propositioning is the first step in closing a deal.”

good citizens have a place somewhere

“Disappointing your parents is the first thing to do when you come to New York.

They look normal.”
“Normal is a setting on a washing machine.”

New York City roommates were not friendly soul sisters; Central Park was a place of naked trees, unusable benches, and spent rubbers; windows had security gates that locked rapists out and victims in; no cute sailors were waiting to meet a girl and get a kiss. No. In New York City real estate parlors took your money and lied to you, drug addicts relieved themselves in plain sight, and the Public Library was closed on Mondays.

Her roommates had come to view her as an unexorcised poltergeist, one that had to be negotiated around. Then again, they were not really her roommates but her hosts, making Sue feel as welcome as an abdominal parasite.

look like he rated the position

he could only scrunch up the one side of his face to force one eye closed.

Being Anna’s boyfriend was like training to be a Navy SEAL while working full-time in an Amazon fulfillment center in the Oklahoma Panhandle in tornado season

She had too keen an eye for the smallest of details and left no stones unturned, uninspected, unrecorded, or unreplaced if they needed replacing