“Judge Murray looked over at Jon, genuinely interested He was ill-accustomed to relevant questions, given the kind of job he had.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 212.
Like Time and Tide
“The judge had places to be, for at the Clifton Garden County Club, the scheduled tee times wait for no man.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 210
A Study in Contrasts
“Judge Murray sat behind a dark cherry-colored bench, crafted in another era. It was a work of artisanship and beauty, as if calculated to contrast sharply with the decisions that had been handed down from that same bench over the previous twenty years. The judicial decisions were mostly press wood with an oak veneer.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 210
The Worst Kind of Warmth
“The laughter was hollow, the phoniness transparent, the warmth chilly”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 202
And One on the Angry Side
“He was not mistaken about the state of his forehead either. An angry welt of generally circular aspect stared back out at him from the mirror. He looked like a Hindu god of war.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 198
Because They Were Curious
“But inside, his head felt like a baseball had just collided with a nest of Asian giant hornets in the there, a nest that was on the large side, and all the hornets had just come outside to inquire about the baseball.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 194
Stands to Reason
“Roberta was rapidly discovering that bursting dams do not have a great deal of control over how much water goes downstream. All of it, usually.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 193
Really Energetic
“She had been a gymnast in high school, and was still full of that kind of bounce. After they had been in her company for a few days, Ace described her to Stephanie as an energetic rectangle.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 188
The Remains of Cute
“And Isadora was cute too, or had been once. The piercings and Halloween hair were now something of a distraction, and deep inside her soul Isadora had diligently been taking her ugly pills for at least ten years, and that was finally starting to show on the surface as well. They were slow-acting, time-release ugly pills, but they were nevertheless very effective. But there were the remains of cute about her still, depending on the lighting.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, pp. 150-151
Without Double Standards, No Standards at All
“And so it was that the two women drove off, back to their natural habitat, a deep thicket of double standards. No language was off-limits, no matter how crass, so long as it was uttered in the celebration of vice; and no language that indicated any level of disapproval of vice, no matter how mild, could be tolerated for a moment. All of it was lumped under the catch-all word hate.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 146