You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories

and the women he’d dated had seemed to believe him when he told them he wasn’t looking for anything serious—or at least to believe that the fact he’d said this meant they could not accuse him of wrongdoing when it ultimately proved to be true.

What can this mean but that I am spoiled, and selfish, and arrogant, and that I am capable of loving nothing but a distorted reflection of my own twisted heart?

Brave girls, to transmute terror into laughter, to joke instead of cry.