## Metadata - Author: [[John Crowley]] - Full Title: Little, Big - Category: #books ## Highlights - First she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld. ([Location 684](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005DB7O0U&location=684)) - he knew that his well-built life, masoned and furnished over forty careful years, had not weathered the wind of his dissatisfaction: he felt it crumble, the foundations slipped, vast cracks appeared, the whole edifice of it caved in with a long noise he could almost hear. ([Location 981](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005DB7O0U&location=981)) - Across the lake a boat was coming, laying out lacquered ripples. ([Location 1325](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005DB7O0U&location=1325))