Yes. But if it didn’t work I’d be no worse off. Except for the humiliation of being turned down. - P146
No. Hell. I just want to live simply and pay attention to what’s happening each day. And come sleep with you at night. - P146
But I do feel better already. I thank you for that. I’m grateful for all of this. I feel very fortunate again now. - P151
Well, old woman Moore. You’ve won me completely. You’re just right. You’re how you’re supposed to look. You’re not supposed to be some thirteen-year-old girl without any breasts and hips. - P152
Look how I’ve turned out, he said. I’ve got this gut on me. My arms and legs are thin old man’s arms and legs. - P152
No. But I haven’t tried this for years either. The limp time has come, as the poet says. I’m just an old son of a bitch now. - P153
After dark one night they walked over to the grade school playground and Louis pushed Addie on the big chain swing and she rode up and back in the cool fresh night air of late summer with the hem of her skirt fluttering over her knees. Afterward they went back to bed in her upstairs front room and lay beside each other naked in the summer air coming in from the open windows. - P155
Because men are the ones who design these things, that’s why. - P156
She scooted over close to him. - P156
Everything in its time and place, he said. - P156
Like Dad did with me, you mean. I know your father wasn’t always kind. Kind. My God, he had nothing to do with me after Connie died. - P164
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