If You Start Thinking About Being Likable

There Are Many Different Ways To Be Poor In The World But Increasingly There Seems To Be One Single Way To Be Rich.

He Was Making Her Feel Small And Absurdly Petulant And, Worse Yet, She Suspected He Was Right. She Always Suspected He Was Right. For A Brief Irrational Moment, She Wished She Could Walk Away From Him. Then She Wished, More Rationally, That She Could Love Him Without Needing Him. Need Gave Him Power Without His Trying; Need Was The Choicelessness She Often Felt Around Him.

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Why Did People Ask "what Is It About?" As If A Novel Had To Be About Only One Thing.

That Her Relationship With Him Was Like Being Content In A House But Always Sitting By The Window And Looking Out