`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.

`` I made you so you could stand up.

Then, helpfully, as she merely stared at him in weary silence, `` Maybe you could write it down for me, huh??

Finally Hernandez said, `` I could offer you advice, Tomas, but you wouldn't heed it ''.

Plus flawless skin, smooth brow and cheeks, lips that looked as if you could get a shock from them.

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

He might have been the man in the moon for all you could have understood him.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

Can't let you go way from me again '' He closed his eyes, ashamed of his tears.

`` But after a time away from you.

`` Damn you, Adams '' -- Jess was beginning to recover from his initial shock.

Indeed, you wouldn't live long, for the females either drive the men they've seized from neighboring islands back to their boats after exploiting them for amatory purposes, or they destroy them by revolting but ingenious methods.

But when it happens to you like that, I tell you, and you're a hundred feet from where you thought you were -- well, it makes you think.

`` Where'd you come from, Mr. -- uh -- Mr. Smith ''??

Ernie was screaming inside himself: No, damn you, you ain't gonna take my meal ticket away from me!!

By virtue of his self-reliance, his individualism and his freedom from external restraint, the private eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle class conception of liberty, which amounts to doing what you please and let the devil take the hindmost.

One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.

His reply was, `` Everything that has been printed derogatory to you, purporting to have come from me, was a betrayal, and nothing yet has been printed which I have sanctioned ''.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

We had stopped before a shop window to assess its autumnal display, when you suddenly turned to me, looking up from beneath one of your wrong hats, and with your nervous `` ahem ''!!

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

He added, `` If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them ''.

`` Don't get yourself killed for something that doesn't concern you ''.

Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.

And you also got this little spark in your bird-brain that tells you to turn around before you drown yourself.

Really, you are most indiscreet to drive him here yourself '', he said, frowning with displeasure.

More likely, you simply told yourself, as you handed us the book, that it mattered little what we incanted providing we underwent the discipline of incantation.

`` Boy, you ain't fooling nobody but yourself ''.

Why are you out here all by yourself??

So you yourself must seek these objective data, and come to your own conclusions.

He did not really want to kill, but as in the sexual act, there was a moment when the impulse took over and could not be downed, even while you watched yourself giving way to it.

Well, yes, perhaps in literature, since you could argue that you couldn't keep silent about your feelings against literature and so were involved in spite of yourself.

`` I am terribly sorry to keep you waiting '', she said, `` but won't you make yourself a little drink while you wait??

Said you wore yourself out, cleaning all these empty rooms ''.