Road Rules

"Her inexperience at the age of 18 makes her feel by turns freakish and amazing, as if she should be placed under glass and observed by scientists. Also, in times of danger — turbulent plane flights home, say — it makes her feel immune. She thinks that it must be impossible, against the laws of nature, to make it through high school and then die before kissing another person."

- The Man of My Dreams Curtis Sittenfield

This is all I'm saying. There are laws, rules, reasons and Fates, damn it, and you'll never be able to tell me otherwise.

Of course, the Renaissance Man had the gall to tell me I was arrogant for thinking I knew what the Fates had in mind ... I hate it when he's right. Fortunately, I seem to be able to throw his entire world off kilter with an innocent question once or twice a month - reciprocity, baby.