Alice McDermott Quotes

And When Mary Nodded, Pauline Said, "You'd Better Hurry Then, You Know How How Is," And Laughed To Show She Would Not Be Married To Bald John Keane For All The Tea In China. In Her Laugh Was Every Confidence Mary Had Ever Shared With Pauline About Her Husband's Failings, Every Unguarded Criticism, Every Angry, Impromptu, Frustrated Critique Of His Personality, His Manners, His Sometimes Morbid, Sometimes Inscrutable, Sometimes Impatient Ways. A Repository, Pauline And Her Laugh, For Every Moment In Thier Marriage When Mary Keane Had Not Loved Her Husband, When Love Itself Had Seemed A Misapprehension, A Delusion (a Stranger Standing Outside Of Schrafft's Transformed Into An Answered Prayer), And Marriage
which Pauline Had Had Sense Enough To Spurn
simply An Awkward Pact With A Stranger, Any Stranger, John Or George, Tom, Dick, Or Harry.
A Repository, Pauline And Her Laugh, Her Knowing Eye, For All That Mary Keane Should Have Kept To Herself.

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