Sex & Rage

Every time between Max and Jacaranda was different, but it was always a tango, and the tango is not a dance that lends itself to much beyond sex and rage. The tango is an embrace popular among sowers of wild oats who regret nothing.

Jacaranda realized that no matter where Max was sitting--what hotel, in what city-or when, he would forever feel like home.

Hemingway, in his typical grandiose way, said that courage was grace under pressure. It occurred to her that, contrary to Hemingway, unless you're going to be a bullfighter, you don't need grace under pressure. You need grace in between pressures- getting from pressure to pressure--not when your house falls down on you.