“It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts and physical desires.”
“I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.”
“I had no genius, no mission to fulfill, no great heart to bestow. I had nothing and I deserved nothing. But all the same I desired some sort of reward.”
“As is your sort of mind,So is your sort of search:You will find what you desire.”
“Sort of' is such a harmless thing to say... sort of. It's just a filler. Sort of... it doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, sort of means everything. Like... after "I love you"... or "You're going to live"... or "It's a boy!”
“It was as though my heart made room for two truths that night—one real, the other safe and familiar and desirable.”