“Nowhere was good. Except with Eric. He had both perfumed and poisoned her entire world.”
“A faithful woman looks to the spring, a good book, perfume, earthquakes, and divine revelation for the experience others find in a lover. They deceive their husbands, so to speak, with the entire world, men excepted.”
“He did not have anything on him except her thoughts, except the good times he had once shared and the bad times he so desperately wanted to forget.”
“Her loving hands, soft lips, and perfumed scents were an addiction for which he had no cure.”
“Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?”
“Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.”