“Mindy felt a jolt of attraction roughly akin to having someone seize her intestines and twist.”

“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”

“Fang felt a cold jolt, then dismissed it. Max wasn’t dead. He would know, somehow. He would have felt it. The world still felt the same to him; therefore, Max was still in it.”

“He felt the reassuring thump of having driven over a small animal, the jolt of it firming up the offer of a sick, annealing grin.”

“I looked at her; I saw a slipshod permanet crumpling her hair into a shapeless mass of curls; I saw a brown overcoat, pitifully threadbare and a bit too shot; I saw a face both unobtrusively attractive and attractively unobtrusive; I sensed in this young woman tranquillity, simplicity and modesty, and I felt that these were qualities I needed; moreover, it seemed to me that we were very much akin: all I had to do was to go up and start talking to her and she would smile as if a long-lost brother had suddenly appeared before her.”

“I don’t have a mind to mindI only have a heartthat loves and cares”