“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.”
“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”
“She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...”
“He was like a knife, all harsh angles and violent promises.”
“The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.”
“All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women”