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“Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.”
“I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.”
“He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but dont. At fourty, Ive learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.”
“How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask."Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.”
“God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?”
“Take me now, God!" I shout to the inky sky. "Im ready.""Youre not ready. Youre not even divorced yet," Bunny says. "You cannot die married to that man.”
“How can I grieve what is still in motion?" I ask her. "Shoes are still dropping all over the place. Im not kidding," I say. "Its Normandy out there.”
“I am replete with stamina in finding out every single fact I can about this whole affair.Yet, I think, do I want to pull that thread? Do I want to unleash the truth, unravel deceit, and kill realit...”
“How could you do that to me?" I repeat. I dont have to itemize. He knows what I speak of.Eventually N produces three answers, in this ”
“Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.”
“I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus...”
“The Betty Lady explains love and splitting up: "Its like playing the shell game with Jesus. You cant figure anything out; its best not to try. Youll just humiliate yourself.”
“I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.”
“I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that Ive come within talon distance of a man.”
“Ive blown it, the whole grisly charade.”
“I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.”
“Im just not sending out the right vibe lately. Perhaps the fact that I wear stained sweatpants and free T-shirts is holding me back. I just cant seem to get back into the intelligent-slut-for-hire ...”
“It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.”
“For me, its sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.”
“Naturally, I do blame Franoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from pr...”
