“While the women talked, he did what he often did in the presence of people he didn’t particularly like; he began planning Martha Q’s funeral.”
“He did not know what it was like to be two women in love.”
“Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.”
“He wished he understood women better. It was a well-known fact that they did not mean half of what they said.But which half did they mean?”
“I looked at him like he was an idiot, but he didn’t notice. Or maybe he got it so often, he thought that was how people looked at him.”
“Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.”