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That was quite enough for me. "Mrs. Harris," I said. "Ivy is perfectly aware of the connotations of the word passionate. She's not some simpering fool in need of social guidance.

Name it after that blind monk—what was his name?" "Dom Pérignon, who said drinking champagne is like tasting the stars.

More are a certainty. I'm in my element here. You can trust me to know when a man will be back in contact.

Perhaps it was a lost opportunity. There's always a special thrill to the forbidden, or so they say.

the Rey family grave at the

Did she not have it all, the beauty, the brains, the breeding, the brilliant marriage? Yet I felt a tangible sadness lurking within…

The bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief.

he says he can't see why I didn't "just" tell the truth. but the truth is denser than he can imagine, yet it's more delicate than my body; it's more complicated than any love that ever passed between the two of us.

You also have to work with the love you are given, with all of the complications clanging behind it like tin cans to a bridal sedan.

Tell her I asked after her." Celestial isn't the kind of singer you would want at your wedding. While her mother is a gravity-defying soprano, she is a scotch-and-Marlboros alto.

You don't want no woman that brandished a firearm, son.

because everybody knows the way to make a bad matter worse with a southern woman is to refuse her food. So I ate like a refugee

I shook my head. Roy wasn't that type of man, although he had dignity in spades. But for a person like Roy, letting go wasn't a self-respecting option.

Only an Atlanta girl could be so classy while doing something so hood. It was love-logic,

Mr. Lincoln too much, though I confess to despising him. He said that America will never be conquered from without but by the Vandals within. I fear he is only too right.

You will remember that it was St. Augustine who said that if a man wished to improve the world about him he must make himself a better individual—which is the most gigantic task any man ever faced, and the majority fail in it.

When emotions run high, logic flies out the window, and performance usually follows.

And Ill look back and regret how I ignored when they said, Run as fast as you can.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. It has long been said that air (which others call argon) is the source of life.

Literacy encourages a culture to place more value on documentation and less on subjective experience.

Stratton reminded himself to maintain the dispassionate attitude of a scientist.

there are more significant matters to attend to, gestalts beckoning my attention.

writing is a technology, which means that a literate person is someone whose thought processes are technologically mediated.

Hilbert once said, "If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?