“Men told Lucia I was lovely looking, but completely cold. Why cold? I let them kiss me when they must, in cabs, dancing in hot nightclubs, at parties. They were not real. Neither was the office. Clothes were real. I bought many clothes so that, when Peter called up, I could say “come over instantly” and I would be marvellously dressed. I dressed carefully, always, because I might meet some friend of Peter’s, who would go back to him and say, “I saw Patricia; she was looking beautiful.” Then he would call up sooner.” LoveRelationshipsPartyFashionFriendsClothes Book:Ex-wife Source: Ex-wife
“Don’t generalize from one example and an irrelevant one. You have a practically universal sex-appeal. As soon as you begin to be even a little interested in people, again, instead of just decorative but altogether unresponsive, you’ll have dozens of men asking to ‘love’ (her accent was derisive) you for a night or a month or two or even longer. I worry about that.” LoveSexAdviceFriends Book:Ex-wife Source: Ex-wife
“Perhaps that was it—it did not matter why, really—we had to get on without Heaven as best we could.” LoveDeathHeavenLossHeartbreakReflectionDivorce Book:Ex-wife Source: Ex-wife
