Three Women: THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Sometimes there’s nothing better on earth than someone asking you a question.

propriety.

Kim Novak in Vertigo.

So many of the fears about desire seem to be things we should have overcome years ago. We can say we want to fuck indiscriminately, but we cannot exactly say that we expect to be happy.

She’s in her room with the lights off and she’s under the covers in her white panties and she’s moving her legs together like a deli meat slicer and she’s imagining her life in movie scenes and she’s kissing him in the rain, at his football practice, in

Sloane thought how funny it was the way that memories live in our brains. It’s funny who gets to switch things on and off. You have to decide who’s right.

Men can frighten us, other women can frighten us, and sometimes we worry so much about what frightens us that we wait to have an orgasm until we are alone. We pretend to want things we don’t want so nobody can see us not getting what we need.

but the tender moments of anticipation remain.

This is an outlandish notion only if you don’t know how a person can destroy you by the simple act of disappearing.