Crossroads (2008)
“What was it, Stan was often to ask himself, that had led him to Gwen and led her to him?
She was not really very beautiful; he’d decided that early on—and had also known that it didn’t matter to him. She was too quiet, and as he’d told her—and where had he gotten the nerve?—she was the kind of person who is often called “quaint.” She was not easy to know—at least, at first. Yet there was something about her that led him to walk into a florist shop, the day after her grand party, and buy her a l...ittle bush filled with miniature pink roses.
He took it home to his apartment—he had recently moved to a new building in the center of Wrightstown—and put it on his kitchen table. The rosebush, he now realized, answered a question that had been worrying him. He and Gwen had agreed to go to a movie together, and he had been wondering if he should call her up and ask her in a formal way to go on a date with him, or if he should show up at her home on some pretext—perhaps he would say he wanted to make sure the lanterns were still working—and casually mention the movie as an afterthought.MoreLess
She was not really very beautiful; he’d decided that early on—and had also known that it didn’t matter to him. She was too quiet, and as he’d told her—and where had he gotten the nerve?—she was the kind of person who is often called “quaint.” She was not easy to know—at least, at first. Yet there was something about her that led him to walk into a florist shop, the day after her grand party, and buy her a l...ittle bush filled with miniature pink roses.
He took it home to his apartment—he had recently moved to a new building in the center of Wrightstown—and put it on his kitchen table. The rosebush, he now realized, answered a question that had been worrying him. He and Gwen had agreed to go to a movie together, and he had been wondering if he should call her up and ask her in a formal way to go on a date with him, or if he should show up at her home on some pretext—perhaps he would say he wanted to make sure the lanterns were still working—and casually mention the movie as an afterthought.MoreLess
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