“It wasn’t simply about the sex any longer, wasn’t simply about assuaging the skin hunger that haunted them both. It was about saying good-bye to a dream that had never had a chance.”
“To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.”
“But he didn’t know the half of it. That it wasn’t just his refusal that had haunted her. It was him. Everything about him.”
“For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?”
“Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn’t paying attention,”
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”