Instinctively, before they had a chance to open their mouths, she knew not only that they were bores but the quality of their boringness.

Holonym: kernel

I wasn't trying to be cruel. It's just, with all the waiting-by-the-phone stuff that happens when you're twenty-five—the headgames, the guys never being honest, or their acting like you're trying to do something awful to them just by caring—a girl's got to take her power back.

page 9 (dialogue): He pees me off on TV. Have we anything of his I could read? page 37 (dialogue): Pee off, this is a private conversation, hey?