What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

It's just programming"
"No. It's because I love him

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Bubbly is bogus.

The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you'd never know just by dating.

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.