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21 " Women readers kept fiction alive—here was another one. "
― John Irving , Avenue of Mysteries
22 " Well, lion tamers are probably difficult to live with—I suppose there’s no small amount of testosterone involved in taming lions,” Vargas said, shrugging. "
23 " The day women stop reading—that’s the day the novel dies!” the "
24 " What woman wants to hear someone say what her husband is thinking? What guy is going to be happy hearing what’s on his wife’s mind? "
25 " Just give me the antibiotic,” Esperanza said. “Of course I’ll be infected again! I’m a prostitute. "
26 " (As a novelist, he was always looking ahead, too.) "
27 " Clothes, whips, reading material,” the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. “Just the bare essentials!” Edward Bonshaw "
28 " The good gringo asked Lupe if she forgave him for sleeping with her mother. “Yes,” Lupe said, “but we can’t ever get married. "
29 " His childhood, and the people he’d encountered there—the ones who’d changed his life, or who’d been witnesses to what had happened to him at that crucial time—were what Juan Diego had instead of religion. "
30 " The past was where he lived most confidently, and with the surest sense of knowing who he was—not only as a novelist. "
31 " (As a novelist, he was a little fussy about chronological order, a tad old-fashioned.) "
32 " Yet no litany of sexually transmitted diseases was likely to scare Edward Bonshaw away; sexual attraction isn’t strictly scientific. "
33 " Ni siquiera una sorpresa, "
34 " Vargas isn’t supposed to be faithful to a woman he hasn’t slept with! Vargas only wants to sleep with Dr. Gomez, Lupe. "
35 " obdurately "
36 " No es buen momento para un terremoto,” Lupe used to say. “It’s not a good moment for an earthquake. "
37 " won’t they? "
38 " tines "
39 " Succuba "
40 " He’d complained to his doctor. “The beta-blockers are blocking my memories!” Juan Diego cried. “They are stealing my childhood—they are robbing my dreams!” To his doctor, all this hysteria meant was that Juan Diego missed the kick his adrenaline gave him. (Beta-blockers really do a number on your adrenaline.) "