“And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant”
“Sounded like girls. Mixed feelings on that score. He didn't despise them with the same passion he used to. In fact, Benny suspected that there would come a time in the not-too-distant future when he might develop a mysterious interest in them.”
“What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!”
“It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.”
“You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. But you can put your arms around me anyway.”
“At first he thought she was an ordinary woman. Well, an ordinary dead woman anyways.”