“Quoyle with regards to Petal, his wife, "There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering…In another time, in another sex, she would have been Genghis Khan.”

—  Annie Proulx, book The Shipping News

Source: The Shipping News (1993), P. 13

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