The Thing About Men
Elizabeth Bevarly
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“whether it was fortunate or unfortunate for Claire that neither of her parents had left be-hind any relatives suitable for raising her—all had either been too dilapidated, too debilitated, too disinterested, or too dysfunctional.”
“she’d never experienced for Chandler the kind of feeling a woman should have for a man she thought about marrying, that breathless kind of wanting, that aching sort of yearning, that endless, ferocious passion, that insistent, frenzied, needy demand, that hot, sweaty, wanton arousal that made a woman just want to rip off her clothes and wrap her naked body around a man and feed herself to him whole, that... that…”
“it had been longer ago than last Thanksgiving that she’d experienced the perspiration thing. A quick tally told her just how long, and she suddenly realized why she was suddenly so preoccupied with breathless, aching, ferocious, insistent, sweaty, wanton, ah… that feeling a woman should probably have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.”
“had been a long time since he’d touched a woman like that It was that he’d never touched a woman like Claire at all. Not one who was all cool culture and calm comportment and classy custom.”
“eloped. Claire and Ramsey just did it in Acapulco, that was all. Anabel was the flower girl. Except that she ate all the flowers just before the ceremony. Then she broke the basket that was supposed to hold them. Then she knocked over the floral arrangements in the back of the church.”
“What do you mean no one knows where he is? Human beings don’t just disappear. Not unless they’ve been abducted by aliens. But even then, isn’t there some kind of crop circle left behind or something?”
“What do you mean no one knows where he is? Human beings don’t just disappear. Not unless they’ve been abducted by aliens. But even then, isn’t there some kind of crop circle left behind or something? Does this Ramsey Sage not have a crop circle? Because if he doesn’t, then he’s probably not been abducted by aliens, in which case, we’d have a good chance of finding him, I’d think.”
“That had been last Thanksgiving. And it had been longer ago than last Thanksgiving that she’d experienced the perspiration thing. A quick tally told her just how long, and she suddenly realized why she was suddenly so preoccupied with breathless, aching, ferocious, insistent, sweaty, wanton, ah…that feeling a woman should probably have for a man with whom she intended to spend the rest of her life.”
“So even though, to the outside world, Claire Willoughby was Simple Pleasures, Inc., Claire knew she was actually little more than window dressing for the business. Truth be told, she was so organizationally challenged, she couldn’t arrange her own underwear drawer, let alone tell people how to arrange their lives.”
“Since then, he’d seen so many things that defeated and demoralized him. Nobody could change the world singlehandedly. Hell, nobody could change the state child welfare system. Not unless they were able to complete an overhaul of human nature. Not unless they were able to wipe out the blackness that lurked in every person’s soul.”
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