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The windows of his house shone in the darkness like squares of melting butter. — Annie Proulx

The only cities were of ice, bergs with cores of beryl, blue gems within white gems, that some said gave off an odor of almonds. — Annie Proulx

You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation. — Annie Proulx

You know, the Chinese have forgotten more about sailing than the rest of the world ever knew. — Annie Proulx

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself. — Annie Proulx

One thing never changed: the brilliant charge of their infrequent couplings was darkened by the sense of time flying, never enough time, never enough. — Annie Proulx

The world is a staircase," hissed the accordion maker in the darkness. "Some go up and some come down. We must ascend. — Annie Proulx

Jack, in his dark camp, saw Ennis as night fire, a red spark on the huge black mass of mountain. — Annie Proulx

Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. — Annie Proulx

I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. — Annie Proulx

Warren made bursting noises under the bed. A rancorous stench. Dog Farts Fell Family of Four. — Annie Proulx

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton ... — Annie Proulx

If you can't fix it, you have to stand it. — Annie Proulx

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. — Annie Proulx

All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle. — Annie Proulx

December brought stone-silent days though a fresh odor came from the heavy sky, the smell of cold purity that was the essence of the boreal forest. So — Annie Proulx

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language — Annie Proulx

Hell was a great fiery-hot music hall, he thought, where untuned instruments scraped and shrieked in diabolical cacophany ... — Annie Proulx

Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power. — Annie Proulx

Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once. — Annie Proulx

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle. — Annie Proulx

There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering. — Annie Proulx

The past bubbled out of his black mouth. — Annie Proulx

All them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them — Annie Proulx

It's easier to die if others around you are dying. — Annie Proulx

And so my father changed his name to William Pretty and here he grew up and led an independent life. And if it was not happy, he didn't know it. — Annie Proulx

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror ... — Annie Proulx

The interior of the station wagon smelled of human hair. — Annie Proulx

if you can't fix it you got a stand it. — Annie Proulx

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place. — Annie Proulx