Kindle Notes & Highlights
The Maples laughed, less at the words themselves than at the way Rebecca had evoked the situation by conveying, in her understated imitation, both her escort’s flamboyant attitude and her own undemonstrative nature.
Few experiences so savor of the illicit as mounting stairs behind a woman’s fanny.
We sense everything between us, every ripple, existent and nonexistent; it is tiring. Courting a wife takes tenfold the strength of winning an ignorant girl.
So I am taken by surprise at a turning when at the meaningful hour of ten you come with a kiss of toothpaste to me moist and girlish and quick; an expected gift is not worth giving.
“I asked you not to talk,” Joan said. “Now you’ve said things that I’ll never forget.”
as he walked down the length of the corridor, space seemed to adjust snugly around him.
Romance is, simply, the strange, the untried.
Eve was their sitter, a little bony girl from down the street who would, in exactly a year, Richard calculated, be painfully lovely.
Richard was pained, remembering, from the days when they had been content together, how she had once confessed to feeling a sexual stir when the young man at the gas station, wiping the windshield with a vigorous, circular motion, had made the body of the car, containing her, rock slightly. Of all the things she had ever told him, this remained in his mind the most revealing, the deepest glimpse she had ever permitted into the secret woman he could never reach and had at last wearied of trying to reach.
She was happy, and, jealous of her happiness, he again grew reluctant to leave her.
At the fringe of some Unitarians stood a plump, doughy man with the troubled squint of a baker who has looked into too many ovens.
Ha, I love that description!
