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Tim O'Brien

July, July

  • Valerie Khorishkoцитирует6 лет назад
    Anyway, as you all know,” David said, “I majored in Marla during my time here at Darton Hall, and then for almost ten years afterward. Mostly got D’s, I’m afraid—ended up with a big fat F—but I’ll love her forever.”
  • Valerie Khorishkoцитирует6 лет назад
    There were instances of doubt and jealousy, even outright rivalry, yet both husbands were willing to adapt, willing to pay a price in return for Spook Spinelli’s divided attention. They were good men. They loved her. They were also a trifle afraid of her, and afraid for her. They recognized the fragility at the core of Spook’s personality, the tenuous grip she had on her mental health and perhaps on life itself
  • Valerie Khorishkoцитирует6 лет назад
    By convention, and perhaps out of psychological need, we too often interpret the bizarre facts of our universe as mere farce, beneath belief
  • Valerie Khorishkoцитирует6 лет назад
    Even as a college kid Spook had taken huge emotional risks without knowing why, gambling on instinct, man after man, betting big, mostly winning, always trusting in chance and the purity of human motives
  • Valerie Khorishkoцитирует6 лет назад
    She was still slim, but no longer cute, and at present her consonants were under vodka pressure.
  • Valerie Khorishkoцитирует6 лет назад
    From the day he’d met her, or even before, David had known that the odds were poison. One in a thousand, maybe worse. But there were no decent options except to keep trying and never quit.
  • Valerie Khorishkoцитирует6 лет назад
    Let’s just say the gal was born in neutral. No overdrive. No gears at all
  • Valerie Khorishkoцитирует6 лет назад
    The affair had developed by accident, a mild flirtation, never serious, but the consequences were enough to make her believe in Satan
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