The Passenger

My heart was broken just once. But completely.

A wink is a difficult gesture to master and yet practiced by volumes of men who lack the panache to pull it off

I could do it all over again, I never would have married him even if he slept like an ange

“You can’t just start a fight. You have to finish it. No matter what it takes.”

Lou’s all right. When I was a girl I dreamed of better than all right. For a while you were my better-than-all-right. Look how that turned out.

I’d give you advice, but according to my parents, the secret to staying together is never being in the same room

“Sorry to get you tangled in my mess.”
“No apology necessary. Who knows, one day you might get tangled in mine. Then we’d be even.”

“You saw the gun, didn’t you?” she said.
“Yes,” I said. No point in denying it.
“I have a husband. Although I regard him as more of an ex-husband,” she said as if that were the common explanation for owning a firearm.

Considering I just committed a double murder for you, I think an explanation is due

Blue seemed a little too clearheaded for my liking, but at least she had a plan.