I now have a theory that Nora puts up with Patch and thinks they have true love because everyone in her life is so awful and abusive that she's conditioned to think it's normal, and the more someone abuses her, the more they must care about her. And Patch picked up on this and went for her because she's an easy target. There's really no way to read this book as a real, sweeping romance. Not with a modicum of reading comprehension, anyway.
Also, according to Fitzpatrick, I must be dating my brother, because I let him wear my hat to a Halloween party. Occasionally, he lets me borrow one of his big, cuddly sweatshirts, so that would probably clinch it for her. But seriously, the measures of how you can tell two people are a couple in the chapter are shockingly arbitrary. Wearing someone's hat? Totally together. Licking someone or straddling them? Totally normal, apparently.
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Date: 2012-11-06 03:36 am (UTC)Also, according to Fitzpatrick, I must be dating my brother, because I let him wear my hat to a Halloween party. Occasionally, he lets me borrow one of his big, cuddly sweatshirts, so that would probably clinch it for her. But seriously, the measures of how you can tell two people are a couple in the chapter are shockingly arbitrary. Wearing someone's hat? Totally together. Licking someone or straddling them? Totally normal, apparently.