The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn't even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.

“His anger was still there, and he used it to break into her. He liked the way h…”

“Jed thought he understood. It was like when his radios were thrown away. You co…”

“He thought of his old tapes, the ones he'd had for years, the ones he'd used ov…”

“He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and …”