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“It was as if he were daring me to look at him . . . and tell him what I saw.”
“Well. I don't know where to start. What to say. What to think.”
“I do possess a certain rigidity, a certain prudishness. I hate it in myself.”
“In a matter of seconds I, too, had come to despise her.”
“I did not bother to explain myself. It would have taken months. Years.”
“I have been telling a lot of lies lately.”
“Unlike myself, she has the accident of style rather than the intention.”
“Hey, babe," I said. "Love hurts.”
“I was corrupted in other ways. I was led to believe that intelligence made a difference.”
“I was suddenly afraid that if I seemed too upset or afraid, too crazy, he would stop.”
“How do you get me into these fucking conversations? You think too fucking much.”
“He was anxious to go, reluctant to go. Ready to go.”
“Something I have never mastered. Something I've never even tried to master.”
“It was that time when I am finally able to sleep the sweetest, the deepest.”
“A dangerous combination for me. Language and passion.”
“. . . sentimentality being an emotion that for me usually attends later in the night.”
“People think I'm much more than I am.”
“She smiled with a kind of abashed formality, embarrassed by revelation.”
“Most things, I've come to believe, are not intended.”