Цитаты из книги Revenge

“Whatever happened to the tiger?” I asked.
“He died in the garden,” he said. “It was a beautiful death.”
We were quiet then for a moment. <…>. His arms reached out from under the blanket. I took his hands in mine, and it seemed to me that we were praying for the tiger.<…>The fur shimmered in the white snow as I knelt to gather up the scattered bits of the tiger.

He closed his eyes, pulled his blanket up to his chin, and curled into a ball.

“Thanks for the Christmas cards,” I said.

“They said he was nothing but skin and bones, he would have starved to death anyway.”

“Give my regards to the tiger,” I said, leaning in the car window.

I suppose I’d thought that something as mundane as age could never apply to him.

“When will you be back?” I would ask. It still amazes me that I could have been so blunt as a child—but I truly wanted to know.
“I wonder…” He was incapable of making promises of any sort.

That’s the way the world is.”

“I’ve had a wonderful time,”

the odor—it’s overpowering. It gets into your pores, right down the roots of your hair.

He’s absolutely perfect, but it’s the kind of perfection you can’t touch, even when it’s right there in front of you.”

it seemed to fit the model like a second skin, as though he had been born wearing it.

I was chosen to be the guinea pig.

Thank you for the tour,”

we seem convinced that our very existence is somehow bound up in our hair.”
“You’re right,” I said. “I’m a beautician. I should know.”

My boyfriend arrived just on time. It had been a while since we’d spent our day off together. In fact, we’d been so busy I hadn’t seen him in almost three weeks.
We were planning to watch a video and have a quiet dinner at home. Then we might go out to a bookstore or record shop, or take a walk in the park. Or maybe I would cut his hair on the balcony

“No, I didn’t see her much. Just the occasional ‘hello’ in the elevator.”

He appeared to be on edge, almost as if he had committed a murder himself.

Why was everyone dying? They had all been so alive just yesterday.

She continued to test the fit—loosening the strap, rolling her shoulders, and finally striking a pose as though a microphone were in her hand.