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It had been a long time since he’d felt his life was in danger of further ruin, and it was fun to think it was still possible.
fatal combination of pride, weakness and a foolish lust for something resembling passion.
How, she thought miserably, could she have mistaken this hostile moron for the dark, brooding hero who would crush her like an insect and then talk about life and art?
a mosquito-bite feeling of loss.
They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters who looked like they’d met with utter disappointment and became attached to it.
The perfume of wealth graced her casually,
Everything was so important in Ann Arbor, so fraught with the tension held tight in the bud of fantasy before it bursts into gaily striped attempt.
querulous buildings sweating in the afternoon heat.
It’s always been easy for me to be vulnerable around men because you’re allowed to be. And I can make myself vulnerable to women sexually, but it’s really hard to do with a woman friend. I did it with Alice and she rejected me.’
The universe needed spaces for power to move into. It liked those spaces and valued them.
Her gray eyes were wide and penetrating, but seemed veiled, as if she wanted to look out without you looking in.
They looked as though they were strangers to the world outside their family, as if they had come out blinking, wanting to show their love and happiness, holding it out like a shy present.
