Another Marvelous Thing Quotes

“Their first actual kiss was a one-celled organism which, after they had been standing on the stairway kissing for some time, evolved into something rather grander--a bird of paradise, for example.”
― Laurie Colwin, Another Marvelous Thing

“A love affair was another amazing product of human ingeniousness, like art, like scholarship, like architecture. It was a created thing with rules, language, and reference. When it was finished it lived on in its artifacts: a million memories and gestures.”
― Laurie Colwin, Another Marvelous Thing

“This is the sort of stuff you buy when you intend to stay indoors and kick up a storm of passion,” she said.”
― Laurie Colwin, Another Marvelous Thing