quotes
quotes from 'two girls, fat and thin' by mary gaitskill:
"they didn't refer to their recent heinous intimacy." (240)
"she stared at the clothing she'd thrown on the floor that morning and decided that what had happened the night before hadn't meant anything, that the blade lodged in her chest had always been there, that this incident had just reminded her of it. she adjusted her posture to accomodate the blade and went out for a walk." (225)
'it was a dark bar with heavy air, tended and frequented mainly by old men whose personalities seemed to have drained from their upper bodies and become lodged in their buttocks and thighs, which, as a result of having to carry that extra weight, needed to rest on as many bar stools as possible. these men turned and faced the bottle-waving screamer and the collective impact of that stultified buttock-impacted energy was enough to make him lower his bottle and slink out the door.' (191)
'...he was emanating some urgent, insistent signal and was being received by a hitherto slumbering segment of her and answered with a good deal of ferocity. of course it was sex, but it was something else as well, something that was becoming swollen and unwieldy, like a helium balloon rapidly inflating under her behind.' (193)
'a bolt of sensation zipped through her genitals and nailed her to her seat...' (194)
'she had the comforting thought that any minute now she would be at home, sobbing on her bed, alone but unmolested.' (195)
'it was also somewhat disorienting to see him after so much time had intervened; my feelings of longing... twitched into life at the sight of him and began to stumble about like frankenstein's poor monster, who doesn't know why he's alive.' (267)