Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it’s going to be in words.
Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?
Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn’t even lie.
I will never lie again.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling.
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
She was the captain of her soul.
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he’s durn nigh hopeless.
She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time.
My, my. A body does get around.
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only can love not last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
Caddy smelled like trees.
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won’t.
He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn’t smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.