“Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.”
“Secret to remain young is to have an inordinate passion for pleasure.”
“Father looked at her and she was beautiful in the way she had been as a girl. He did not realize the pleasure he felt in having made her cry.”
“What he felt, though, was the echo of her flesh, and the reverberations of their farewell, with all its doubts and pleasures.”
“d it was true she experienced even the strongest pleasures and poignancies down pretty deep. They tended not to make it all the way up to her face. [Lena]”
“...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.”