Melissa Bank
:: the Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
"Sometimes you're loved for your weaknesses," she said. "What you can't do is sometimes more compelling than what you can."
I tried to understand what [my brother] had told me. But I worried about that, too. Other people might not try as hard as I did to understand him. I was always on his side, no matter what. My parents were, too. All he really had to do with us was show up. More had been expected of him as Julia's boyfriend and at that party. More would be expected of him everywhere.
"We are all children until our fathers die."
You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.