" She saw suddenly that she had been afflicted—not only by her blues, which came and went as they pleased (and which she enjoyed in a strange way), but also by a need to feel that she was part of somebody else. She had never, ever thought she needed that. In fact she had relished being different, being a rebel. She had liked it that women talked about her behind cupped hands, that men turned to watch her walk down the sidewalk. But now, sitting here with Bradley, she realized that what she loved most about him was that he accepted her for just who she was. He didn’t raise an eyebrow when she told them that she had been married and divorced twice. “All that matters is right now,” he said, and she would have loved him for that if nothing else. "

― Silas House