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"Mrs. Camp felt that most men moved in slow motion, and that was what attracted women."

"His head looked a little like a cantaloupe--a ridiculous idea, which would be useful just the same;
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She saved the more flattering images of him as things to say to him after making love."

"She had asked her husband to please not drop his house key in it. It was meant to be empty.

When her husband first noticed the bowl, he had peered into it and smiled briefly."

"This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with her lover in the country. This, of course, is the barest outline, and futile to discuss. It's as pointless as throwing birdseed on the ground while snow still falls fast. Who expects small things to survive when even the largest get lost?"

"If she couldn't stop crying, Vernon would make love to her. When she was very sad, he sensed that his instinctive optimism wouldn't work; he became tongue-tied, and when he couldn't talk he would reach for her."