Book: Like Life
Quotes of Book: Like Life
No, I'm not Jewish," she said archly, staring him down, to teach him, to teach him this: "Are you?""Yes," he said. He studied her eyes."Oh," she said."Not many of us in this part of the world, so I thought I'd ask.""Yes." She felt an embarrassed sense of loss, as if something that should have been hers but wasn't had been taken away, legally, by the police. book-quoteOften, when she spoke to men at parties, she rushed things in her mind. As the man politely blathered on, she would fall in love, marry, then find herself in a bitter custody battle with him for the kids and hoping for a reconciliation, so that despite all his betrayals she might no longer despise him, and in the few minutes remaining, learn, perhaps, what his last name was, and what he did for a living, though probably there was already too much history between them. She would nod, blush, turn away. book-quote
