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My mother hoped moving would erase the affair with a married man.

The transformation of their maid from shadow to sexpot thrills Maizie.

Was that lipstick on Don’s cheek? This was too much for her to take.

A heart takes precautions, withholds warmth, but it’s mistaken.

Here I am, king of the gods, making a fool of myself just to get under your gown.

James Salter

James Salter

She had boyfriends before she met him. Well, not really boyfriends.

I was once a rider of mastodons, a waitress showing skin.

I eat what’s in front of me, as all great men do. Some wouldn’t, but I do.

A woman’s long bare legs stretched up at the edge of the graveyard.

Her sly smile was a vicious remnant of her life before Real Life began.

Their house is what I see when I look up from my notebook.

Keaton didn’t control his emotions; he put them to use.

Lust for power and money undermined their morality and common sense.

The appetite for self-surrender is nothing new in our makeup.

My head was muffled in velvet, my body exposed in an old slip.

Pale dust clung to their skin like the lime he had thrown on the dead.

Ivan rolled his eyes, and looked at the sky like someone about to be martyred.

The suite cost as much as a two-pound brick of Panama Red.

I floated in the tub, my head bobbing, until I felt slick as a seal.

For a moment I had the delicious feeling of fitting in without even trying.

I am not prepared for postwar Freetown. Postwar Sierra Leone.

Shit happens, you still have to pay up or lose it all, even if it ain’t your fault.

Someone’s walk is pretty much who they are, from the beginning.

As far as I was concerned you need never have been my father.

If this farmer worried about her husband, he gave no sign.

Fortyish, give or take, each of them correctly estimates the other to be.

It’s difficult to be blessed by Madam Pele. She gives wonderful trouble.

Walking through the snow with her was enough, quiet enough.