"His hand slid up her leg to the small of her back and held tight. His eyes were cloudy and intent, focused and unfocused, and she'd never seen a man look that way before."
"She felt a flood of warmth for him, an overwhelming feeling that it was a mistake to go away."
"She thought about the parties there were supposed to be in New York, and the boy from Exeter Gabriela was thinking about sleep with, and the dime bag Gabriela was trying to get. She thought about her father eating dinner alone on the dark winter nights, wit no one to talk to."
"Her hair smelled unwashed, but not in the way of adults: she smelled like an unshowered child, like summers at the public pool when he was ten."