Somebody's Darling Quotes

“He had such a crisp mind - it reminded me of cereal before you pour the milk in. For several months all the minds available to me had been like cereal about two hours after you pour the milk in.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling

“I couldn't quite say 'If you loved me' - we had always avoided the word. A mark of good taste on both our parts.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling

“I'm not happy because I can't attract the women I care about most. That's sad, but it's not a tragic or a particularly uncommon problem.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling

“... and we'd probably would be a good team, if he could stay out of love with me, or if I could get in love with him. Neither seemed likely.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling

“The fact that these young women, with their trim ankles, high cheekbones, good educations, bright eyes, little bosoms, and expensive clothes, keep coming to my bungalow and often to my bed, despite the fact that I'm old, fat, often drunk, beneath them on the social scale, and in love with a dead woman, only increases Jill's impatience with her own sex. Their foolishness drives her up the wall, and my willingness to assist them in their obvious folly is a constant bone of contention between us.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling

“if you repeat a temporary answer often enough, it acquires a degree of permanency.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling

“Why tell women the truth, anyway? No need to add to their advantages.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling

“I knew sex was all you ever though about, she said, I just forgot.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling

“I have managed to love all sorts of beautiful women: tall ones and short ones, dumb ones and smart ones, loyal Penelopes and faithless sluts.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling

“Myself, I had no standards to speak of - it would never occur to me to apply a word like standards to a happenstance like love.”
― Larry McMurtry, Somebody's Darling