Here's something from Mary Gaitskill's Because They Wanted To that made me reach for my pen. It's in the story "Orchid."
[The girls] would look at Patrick as if calmly measuring the distance between him and them, as if they knew that his little area of private space was closed to them, but that was all right because they had their own little area they were plannng to go back to once they got what they came for--although of course it often didn't work out that way.
Longer remarks on this book tomorrow.
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