Sublime

so glad that she’d turned out to be a writer, since if her drinking problem had been what it was and she’d been only a Xerox operator, she might have been tempted to go to A.A.

No matter what was in fashion, Janet Wilton was a step beyond. She was the one everybody was trying to become, except that the minute they became Janet Wilton, a curly brunette with blueberry mascara and rapist-slash cheek toner, Janet had turned into a French blonde with a simple powdered nose, and was suddenly pink instead of pomegranate.

Beth Dunn

beginning and no end for the observer.