# Quote — Grace Paley, The Little Disturbances of Man

> Like a good and happy man increasing his virtue, he kissed her. She did not move away from him. She remained in the embrace of his right arm, her face nuzzling his shoulder, her eyes closed. He tipped her chin to look and measure opportunity. She could not open her eyes. Honorably he searched, but on her face he met no quarrel.

- Author: [Grace Paley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/grace-paley.md)
- Book: [The Little Disturbances of Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/grace-paley/the-little-disturbances-of-man.md)
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> The organization of his ideas was all wrong; I was drawn to the memory of myself -- a mere stripling of a girl -- the day I learned that the shortest distance between any two points was a great circle.

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> He settles in the kitchen because the children are asleep all over the rest of the house. I unknot his tie and offer him a cold sandwich. He raps my backside, paying attention to the bounce. I walk around him as though he were a Maypole, kissing as I go.

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