He laughed as the elevator doors slid shut, groaning as though they'd much prefer to stay open. "The Shining really got me when I was a kid. I decided that every hotel in the vicinity was haunted, so I convinced my mom to get a room for a night, but I ended up being too scared to sleep and made her leave. She wasn't too pleased with the waste of money."
Cole was definitely cheered by the fact that there was someone else - a woman, no less - who didn't raise her eyebrows at the fact that he liked books or give some sort of false sympathetic look. Sure, he went for walks and all that, but he was not athletically inclined in the slightest; but maybe that wasn't what all women were looking for. "What about you - favorite author?"