“She'd half loved men, and they'd half failed her.”
“Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him.The other half were men and didn't count.”
“Half of them loved her like a daughter, and other half wanted to spread her legs, but either sort would die for her.”
“If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed.”
“When she was done whispering in the mike and being cute as hell, they'd sing a song half in English and half in French and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy.”
“The hell with this aching, suffering, callow, half-assed delusion that he was in "love" with her. The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.”