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“She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat.”
“By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.”
“They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When they embraced each others phantoms, each in his separate privacy has savoured the most refined of pl...”
“Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.”
“She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her queen and she hit me.Though, he recalled, not sufficiently brutally to require that he tie her wris...”
