I’m not this unusual, ” she said. “It’s just my hair.” She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at once. I think what she could not abide was the zaniness of her life. Like many of us, she had grown up expecting romance to bestow dignity and direction.“ Be brave, ” I told her. Bobby and I stood before her, confused and homeless and lacking a plan, beset by an aching but chaotic love that refused to focus in the conventional way. Traffic roared behind us. A truck honked its hydraulic horn, a monstrous, oceanic sound. Clare shook her head, not in denial but in exasperation. Because she could think of nothing else to do, she began walking again, more slowly, toward the row of trees. . Michael Cunningham
About This Quote

In this quote, the author is talking about a woman named Clare. She is a forty year old woman who is pregnant and has a crazy love life. She feels that everyone knows about her crazy love life but no one ever talks about it or mentions it. This quote is talking about how she can't stand to be in the spotlight for something that is not her but just her hair. The author also made fun of Clare's hair saying it looks weird.

Source: A Home At The End Of The World

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