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‘Tune your thoughts to a better station,’ she muttered.
boredom was a part of small-town life that you had to get drunk to accept.
Each instant without knowing if she loves me seems like a super-eon, Hugo thought. Then, when I am with her, time collapses.
He realized that she was wearing maybe the worst clothing for sex ever invented, the skinny jean.
She loved Hugo with that superb kind of love a mother has for a male child, a love that is deeper and more pure for knowing that he’ll more than likely turn out a fool.
They were like the people in movies and TV shows so it seemed they were Americans but lately Crystal and Kismet had come to know on some level that they were the real Americans—the rattled, scratching, always-in-debt Americans.
He had to read novels in order to understand the sensations that engulfed him when it came to Kismet. This passage reassured him—he was not alone in his devotions.
The rough-cut men were preparing to eradicate one of the most nutritious plants on earth in favor of growing the sugar beet, perhaps the least nutritious plant on earth. Evolution thought this was hilarious.
Kismet wanted other things. But until she knew what she wanted she wouldn’t give up on what she had.
she also thought involuntary blushing should disqualify him from the FBI.
It was a weakness, she thought later. This responding to a man who asks for approval had been her downfall in so many ways.
North Dakota was known for the citizen posse—bloodthirsty, armed past description. Given righteous cause, the family-values people of field and town became a pitiless one-minded beast.
