Not so cute that she would have, say, gone up to him at a party, but cute enough that she could have drummed up an imaginary crush on him if he’d sat across from her during a dull class—though she was pretty sure that he was out of college, in his mid-twenties at least.
-- Narration/Margot

Importance: Margot muses on the degree of her attraction to Robert shortly after meeting him for the first time. Margot’s tepid response to Robert at this stage foreshadows the lack of desire and attraction that continues throughout the story. The quote also highlights the internal mental processes that go into developing an attraction to another person and the extent to which this is often dependent on “imaginary” details about the other person.

She wondered if perhaps he’d been trying to impress her by suggesting the Holocaust movie, because he didn’t understand that...
-- Narration/Margot