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“The black crosses of the telegraph poles yoked across the constellations passing east to west.” (11)

“There was an old horseskull in the brush and he squatted and picked it up and turned it in his hands. Frail and brittle. Bleached paper white. He squatted in the long light holding it, the comicbook teeth loose in their sockets. The joints in the cranium like a ragged welding of the bone plates. The muted run of sand in the brainbox when he turned it.” (6)

“And where love ends, hate begins”

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

“I often think men have no understanding of what’s not honorable though they’re always talking of it.” (127)

“But she was still the same, and the sight of her affected him the same way, physically reviving him, stirring him, and filling his soul with rapture.” (108)

“You understood me, and you understand.” (102)

“the velvet was delicious” (81)