“And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View”
“She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to”
“It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...”
“I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.”
“It's D-day for King Kong Lookalikes”
“It was just a kiss – ""Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.”