“After that he would leave for a while, breaking things as he went, slamming doors to kick them open, picking up decanters to hurl at mirrors, detouring by way of chairs to smash them against the floor. Always when he came back he would sleep in their room, shutting the door against her. Rigid with self-pity she would lie in another room, wishing for the will to leave. Each believed the other a murderer of time, a destroyer of life itself.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in space and time that was the difference between Maria and other.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Play It As It Lays
― Play It As It Lays
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