The Women (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• “No matter, because there was one surety in all of this, one thing she knew without stint: he was hers”

• “Outside, beyond the gray frame of the window, the weather was dreary, funereal clouds strung from the rooftops like laundry hung out to dry, and so cold even the dirty gray ratlike pigeons were huddled against it, dark motionless lines of frozen feathers and arrested beaks blighting the eaves as far as she could see down both sides of the block”

• “And he, fully aroused, his face gone rubicund and his ears glistening like Christmas ornaments in the quavering light, breathed his answer against the soft heat of her lips”

• “They talked quietly over coffee and fresh-baked rolls until the others began to file in - or he talked and Billy listened - and it was the best sort of talk, the kind that freed his mind to see, and it wasn't long before Billy began to see too.”

• “It always amazed him how fast the days swept by when a job was going right, the mornings coming sweet and hot, the sun arching overhead by degrees to bake them all the color of mulattoes, thunderstorms rolling in of a late afternoon to drench the studs and make soup of the earth and all the while the house fleshing out over its ribs and growing into the snug low roofs and cantilevered eaves that would hang thick with icicles once winter came.”

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• “I want to say this: laws and rules are made for the average. The ordinary man cannot live without rules to guide his conduct. It is infinitely more difficult to live without rules, but that is what the really honest, sincere, thinking man is compelled to do.”

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• He needed—complication. Love, yes. Sex, of course. But something more than that, something fraught and embattled, a relation to make the juices flow in every sense.

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• But of course I did endure—that is what we are put on this earth to do. We Japanese have a saying, Ame futte ji katamaru: the ground that is rained upon hardens. Or, if you like, adversity builds character.

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• Spondulics. The means to pay for the necessities of life so that you didn’t have to live like some half-naked beggar in a loincloth on the streets of Calcutta.

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• lucubrate till dawn to get it—I was coming to Taliesin on impulse. It was as simple as this: one afternoon the previous spring I’d been trudging down the hall of the architecture building with a ziggurat of books under one arm and my case of drafting tools in the other, feeling out of sorts and depressed (what the popular musicians call “blue,” the true hue of anomie

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• vertiginousness verging on panic: What could she possibly say to him? How would she break the ice? Get him to look at her even? And the third thing, a thought clamoring atop the other two and cloaked in a rush of hormonal flapping, was that he

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1. T. Coraghessan Boyle (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PS3552.O932W66
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary