"There is something extraordinary about the first sight of the other's sex, the unveiling of what was hitherto unknown. So that is what we're going to live with, live our love with. Or not."
"During the meal, I said, 'I'd like to take you to Venice,' and immediately added, 'but I can't at the moment because I've got breast cancer, and I'm having an operation next week.'"
"He showed none of the signs—the almost imperceptible retraction, the sudden stiffening—through which even the most educated and composed people let their horror show, despite themselves, when I told them I had cancer."
"I said to M., 'I've got breast cancer' in the same abrupt way that I'd told a Catholic boy, in the sixties, 'I'm pregnant and I want an abortion'—in order to throw him into it, giving him no time to put up his guard."
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