Anyway, what I've just told you was what prompted the chair incident. I had grown big, and he was trying to belittle me.
Charles BaxterMy God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
Charles BaxterTags: humor literature
Charm sometimes has a habit of taking its leave of you. (p.256)
Charles BaxterTags: charm
I felt as though I were in the presence of one of God's more complicated pranks.
Charles BaxterExperience and disappointments had made us methodical.
Charles BaxterAgainst the odds, they refuse to succeed.
Charles BaxterTheir imaginations put the scene on a film loop. Guiltily, they watched it until their mental screens began to wash the rest of the past away.
Charles BaxterEvery day became an epic of endurance.
Charles BaxterMen have strength, Miss Ferenczi said, but no true magic. That is why men fall in love with women but women do not fall in love with men: they just love being loved.
Charles BaxterTo his great relief she recommended no course of action. She listened. She didn't believe in giving advice, even when asked.
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