APRIL QUOTES - PARIS PLAN

but she had to keep interrupting herself

with mounting impatience to tell him not to laugh

she thumped a tight little fist

on her naked knee

he let his hand slide off her shoulder and work it’s way up

under her arm to fondle the shape and light weight of her breast

It’s not sweet, she pronounced the word as if

it were the quintenessence of everything she despised

Oh don’t you know? She brought his hand gently up her hip and around to the flat of her abdomen

where she pressed it close again, Don’t you know you’re the most valuable and wonderful thing in the world. You’re a man

I’m practically

quoting you

play acting or not, her voice

in the mood of love had always been a pretty sound

will you let

me finish

I was standing there in the kitchen and it

suddenly dawned on me that it’s my fault

because everything you said was based on this great premise of ours

that we’re somehow very special and superior to the whole thing

whole idea of suburbia being to

keep reality at bay

whatever she had to say

would be said with that old theatrical emphasis

Darling? We are really going to

do it aren’t we?

he was discovering that she wasn’t really very much to look at

she was toom old, and too tall and too intense