"Weekdays for you and weekends for him." (Polotan 179)
"'the dirtiest deal possible, Lourdes,' Red was saying, 'to be used by someone's unhappy wife'" (Polotan 187)
"The punishing flesh, the paroxysms, the engulfing pleasure that ended in long excruciating sobs - 'Leave all that alone, Red,' she said now, let love go when it must, Lourdes thought, but stay the mutilation" (Polotan 189)