“She had married a vulgar man; and, though she had not become like the man, she had become vulgar.”

“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”

“She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”

“When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.”

“What he thought of her she knew, what he was capable of saying to her she had felt; yet they were married, for all that, and marriage meant that a woman should cleave to the man with whom, uttering tremendous vows, she had stood at the altar.”

“I mentioned that the small god said she brought the asteroid because of what man had become, and they retorted that man might not have become that if we had been relentless in our education of our young people and had not perpetuated ignorance under the guise of cultural sensitivity and the politically correct.”

“She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.”

“She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.”

“She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else…”

“Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.”