Hopes... - I began to understand that there were certain...

Alice Munro, Some Women (via sherry)

“ I began to understand that there were certain talkers – certain girls – whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say but because of the delight they took in saying it. A delight in themselves, a shine on their faces, a conviction that whatever they were telling was remarkable and that they themselves could not help but give pleasure. There might be other people – people like me – who didn’t concede this, but that was their loss. And people like me would never be the audience these girls were after, anyway. ”