Love on the Brain

“You’re not going to slow down your pace to match mine, are you?”

“Of course I am.”

I grin. “I’m so happy for you.”

She sobers up. “Don’t be. Life is pain and then you die.”

I frown. He sounds very . . . in charge. Self-assured. Not that he
usually doesn’t, but it’s having a new . . . effect on me. Oh my God. Am I a damsel in distress?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a community of women trying to mind their own business must be in want of a random man’s opinion.

to want something so much you’re afraid to let yourself take it? Even when it’s in front of you?

“Here’s something else that’s honest: you’re in love with me, too.”

“I’m so happy for you.”

She sobers up. “Don’t be. Life is pain and then you die.”

I think I like him.

Tim and Annie. They’re here at the conference

if you constantly go after new things, there’s never enough of anything.