Paula Fox

Desperate Characters

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  • anastasiahas quoted6 years ago
    She had chosen him at a late moment in her life, when choices were almost always hypothetical. It was a choice out of time.
  • b3141248167has quoted5 years ago
    Well, Im sorry, darling. But it wasnt a good idea to feed it
  • b3141248167has quoted5 years ago
    I dont care for the new people hes taken up with, the clients. I know whats always gone on in the office. Ive done the tiresome work while Charlies put on his funny hats and knocked everybody dead with personal charm.
  • b3141248167has quoted5 years ago
    She smiled, wondering how often, if ever before, the cat had felt a friendly human touch, and she was still smiling as the cat reared up on its hind legs, even as it struck at her with extended claws, smiling right up to that second when it sank its teeth into the back of her left hand and hung from her flesh so that she nearly fell forward, stunned and horrified, yet conscious enough of Ottos presence to smother the cry that arose in her throat as she jerked her hand back from that circle of barbed wire.
  • b3141248167has quoted5 years ago
    I dont care why Im doing it, Sophie said. The point is that I can see it starving.
  • b3141248167has quoted5 years ago
    Otto, Ill just give him a little milk. I know I shouldnt have fed him in the first place. But hes here now. Well be going out to Flynders in June. By the time we come home, hell have found someone else
  • Rajarshi Senguptahas quoted5 years ago
    There was something funny about people’s private little preferences and indulgences, something secretive and childlike and silly.
  • b3141248167has quoted5 years ago
    Poor thing.
    It does very well for itself. All those cats do well.
    Perhaps their survival depends on people like me.
  • Sanchit Katariahas quoted5 years ago
    “What time are we due at the Holsteins?”
  • Sanchit Katariahas quoted5 years ago
    jowled and unprincipled and grotesque.
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