In this instance, she understood completely what the endorsement of a fool was worth.
Richard RussoMiles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque.
Richard RussoThe sad, fucking truth was that no matter who you are, you never, ever, get your fill.
Richard RussoThe other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.
Richard RussoShe gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched.
Richard RussoNot giving a shit, she decided, is like the defrost option on a car's heater that miraculously unfogs the windshield, allowing you to see where you're headed.
Richard RussoHe wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company.
Richard RussoPeople sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
Richard RussoShe had always seemed to him to be deep-down wild, the wilder because she harnessed that wildness most of the time.
Richard RussoKnowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.
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