Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Whatever chemistry she and Jason had had was still there, if only in the form of regret about never really having acted on it.

She was certainly hungry to sleep with someone; it was practically forever since she'd done it. But she liked Jason a little too much to think it was a good idea to sleep with him. What if she started liking him even more? Relationship pain and relationship horror seemed probable.

Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.