5 Quotes by Brooke Lea Foster

A dress is just a dress if you don’t know how to inhabit it.

A man may be benign or he may be sinister, but don’t expect him to be interesting.

Curious, living in someone else’s house – it was like parachuting into another person’s life, landing smack in the middle of a home with its own culture and mores.

Women in the movies got men interested in them by taking charge. Instead, Heddy tended to wish men would want to know her, sense her quickening pulse, note her cheerfulness or the way she twisted her earring as she imagined kissing them. But men never looked that hard, she supposed.

What came to mind was a line from a Salinger story, something about how every man has at least one place that at some point turns into a girl. She’d written a paper on what that one line meant, and still, she hadn’t understood until she happened upon this surfer on Martha’s Vineyard. Perhaps, for every woman, there is at least one place that at some point turns into a boy.