" Look, Kate, we were just making conversation. It’s a fifteen-hour drive and we made it without stopping. I was just trying to make sure that Sam didn’t fall asleep.”
“By asking him questions about me?”
“Don’t read more into it than there is. We’d covered every other topic. You were the last thing we had in common.”
He realized his mistake too late. His poker face caved, his cheeks turned red. "

― Rachel Hawthorne , Love on the Lifts