the goal is to be like Dua Lipa (good at what she does, pursuing her passion, rich, well read, always travelling and exploring new cultures, fashionable, promoting the arts, multilingual, politically aware)
"I want you, Elsie.All the time. I think of you. All. The.Fucking. Time. I'm distracted. […] I think—I dream of crazy things. I want you to marry me tomorrow so you can go on my health insurance. I want to lock you in my room for a couple of weeks.”
Jack.
“we don’t have to talk, by the way. you said you didn’t want to talk to anyone back at the hotel. so we don’t have to, if you’d rather eat this”—he glanced at the plates she had accumulated with obvious distrust—“food in silence.”
you’re not just anyone, seemed like a dangerous thing to say, so she smiled. “i bet you’re great at silences.”
“is that a dare?”