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21 " But you are lucky. You are going to live. The one ball that might have killed you just pushed your intestines aside - like a marble dropped into a bowl of spaghetti. "
― Judith Ivory , Angel in a Red Dress
22 " Everyone grew still, exactly as she'd asked. The little thing skittered around feet, visible one moment, lost the next. A man near Mick - the very man who was part of the couple who'd been at Abernathy and Freigh's when the ferret had gotten loose six weeks ago - said, 'Oh, I hope you can get her. My pet monkey ran out of the house last month, and we never found him. I've been distraught ever since. "
― Judith Ivory , The Proposition
23 " She be a smart woman, ain't she?Yes, sir.I shouldn't have made such a fuss. I can get in some water.Just like that, he admitted he was wrong. What an amazing conversation. (hardback, large print, page 76) "
24 " She thought about his naked chest again. Her memory of it both fascinated and repelled her. Hair. It had been there again as they had argued in the bathroom. She shuddered. Who would have thought? Yet she had studied it with surreptitious care: a pattern of dark hair, two perfect swirls that converged to become a dense pattern in the crevice between chest muscles, then (when he pulled hi arms away to push back his hair) ran in a dark, ever-narrowing line, like an arrow pointing downward. Mick Tremore in the rude, as it were. This way to the widge. (hardcover, large print, page 78) "
25 " Oh, Stuart. You think you can do anything. It’s one of your great charms, but it’s also one of your most aggravating qualities when you think you can move unmovable mountains. "
― Judith Ivory , Untie My Heart
26 " She mourned what every human being mourns in the first moments of full adulthood—that even inside a friend’s arms one can be totally, absolutely alone. "
― Judith Ivory , Black Silk
27 " She sang to the moon. Or to plants or something out here. She wouldn’t sing to him, even though he’d invited her to. He didn’t think he would ever see anything more tender or sad than the way she told her problems to no one, to leaves. And he couldn’t think of anything more brave than carrying on anyway with such a load. She was strong, Winnie Bollash. As strong a woman as he knew. Capable-like.And the most vulnerable creature he’d ever met. "
28 " She shook her head, glued now to the sight. He felt exhilarated, seeing her there, her expression amused, absorbed. Oh, he wanted to charm her. He wanted to woo her, make her stay. He just wasn’t sure how to do it.…Mick knew Win wasn’t listening as he told her about the dog; he was barely listening to himself. He wanted to say, Don’t go. Just stay. Stay and keep looking at me like that. He rattled on instead. "
29 " What irony. This great ship that carried all their fates upon her steel and rivets sailed like a compeer under him, half-blind with a limp. "
― Judith Ivory , Beast
30 " Any woman who can make you happy has all the information she needs to make you miserable if she wants to. "
― Judith Ivory , The Indiscretion
31 " Graham, with his strong ability to maintain and voice his differences, was the bravest bid she could make to stay tolerant, open to life’s diversity, and honest with herself. "