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One advantage of the very low lighting in this room, he'd decided, was that it could make almost any girl look like a million dollars.
Cold Spring Harbor (1986)
Sometimes the world was just too fucking much.
Cold Spring Harbor (1986)
"Well, she's - sweet," he told her. "She's very sweet, and I guess that's part of the trouble. She's like a little girl - is a little girl.
Cold Spring Harbor (1986)
And he was afraid she might be taking this much too seriously, so he reached out to stroke or tousle her hair, but that didn't work because she'd just been to the hairdresser and didn't want to get it messed up.
Cold Spring Harbor (1986)
From the day of his talkative, overconfident arrival at Irving he had failed and failed at learning how not to behave like a jerk; and everybody knew what kind of life a jerk could expect at prep school.
Cold Spring Harbor (1986)
And he didn't mind at all. Downstairs and outdoors and alone again, back in the trampled dust in front of the place, he pitied the drab supervisor and all her quick, harried, frowning children because none of them looked as though they had anything worth waiting for, tonight or ever.
Cold Spring Harbor (1986)
Or was it possible that nobody's reasons could be all that clearly defined? Maybe men and women came together in ways as random and mindless as the mating of birds or pigs or insects, so that any talk of "reasons" would always be vain, always be self-deceiving and beside the point. Well, that would be one way of looking at it.
Cold Spring Harbor (1986)