# Quote — Richard Yates, Disturbing the Peace

> The first drink tasted so good that he let her do most of the talking while he savored it, sitting beside her and watching her profile. The tip of her small nose bobbed very slightly up and down at each syllable beginning with p, b or m, and that seemed a lovely thing for a girl's nose to do.

- Author: [Richard Yates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates.md)
- Book: [Disturbing the Peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/disturbing-the-peace.md)
- Page: 101
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/disturbing-the-peace/the-first-drink

## More from this book

> "You don't have much use for black people, do you, Mr Wilder? Deep down you wish we'd all go away. You think our lips are too thick and our noses too flat and you shudder at the thought of our kinky hair. Isn't that about right, Mr Wilder?"

p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/disturbing-the-peace/you-dont-have.md)

> she talked less, or at least did less of the kind of talking whose only purpose was to fill silence

p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/disturbing-the-peace/she-talked-less.md)

> To find order in chaos - why, of course; that was what he'd wanted all his life.
>
> He had been born for this, for finding order in chaos, and all the wasted years has been a mistake.
>
> To find order in chaos; to find order in chaos.

p. 130 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-yates/disturbing-the-peace/to-find-order.md)