Rusa Abuladze

“She looked hot enough to catch fire, but too lazy to do anything but just lie there and smoke.”
― Gil Brewer, The Vengeful Virgin

“That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.”
― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

“I ripped all her clothes off. She twisted and turned, slow, so they would slip out from under her. Then she closed her eyes and lay back on the pillow. Her hair was falling over her shoulders in snaky curls. Her eye was all black, and her breasts weren’t drawn up and pointing up at me, but soft, and spread out in two big pink splotches. She looked like the great grandmother of every whore in the world. The devil got his money’s worth that night.”
― James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice

“Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.”
― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers