Some servent with no sense of the symbolic had kept the hinges well-oiled during the years of his absence,as if their marital life had merely been cast into temporary abeyance.

“Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten,…”

“No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn…”

“No doubt she was wondering how to fight him off. That made him feel like some s…”

“Never hit a man with a closed fist," he told her. He could feel her pulse."Why?…”