How we cite our quotes: Chapter.Paragraph
Quote #7
"When Amy likes you, when she's interested in you, her attention is so warm and reassuring and entirely enveloping. Like a warm bath […] And then she sees your flaws, she realizes you're just another regular person she has to deal with […] So her interest fades, and you stop feeling good, you can feel that old coldness again, like you're naked on the bathroom floor, and all you want is to get back in the bath." (21.78, 80)
Desi's somewhat creepy description of Amy's cycle of gaining and losing interest in relationships says a lot about the frightening world Amy lives in. Amy Land is a place where it's totally acceptable to seduce somebody, then drop them on Desi's proverbial bathroom floor when she's done with them. In short, Amy's view of reality is filled only with thoughts of herself, so she goes around making a lot of messes and expects everyone else to clean up in her wake.
Quote #8
Nick loved a girl who doesn't exist. I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch. (30.22)
Apart from the fact that Amy's basically calling people who only have one personality lazy and stupid, she doesn't seem to understand the dangerous effects of her multiple versions of reality on the people she comes in contact with. As always, everything is based on her own feelings and desires, not how her destructive actions affect others. She'd probably be stunned to find out that other people actually have feelings of their own.
Quote #9
Andie looks tiny and harmless. She looks like a babysitter, and not a sexy porn babysitter, but the girl from down the road, the one who actually plays with the kids. I know this is not the real Andie because I have followed her in real life. (44.83)
Just in case you thought Nick and Amy were the only people playing the fake realities game, Andie just joined the party. When she gives her press conference where she comes clean about Nick's affair, Andie obviously takes special care to make herself look as childlike and innocent as possible—which we know not only because Amy lurks on her Facebook but because we've see her interact with Nick. The awkward girl at the microphone is a far cry from the sultry, dirty-mouthed vixen we saw at Go's house.