excerpt from "the corrections"

"Sleep was the ideally work-compatible girl he ought to have married in the first place. Perfectly submissive, infinitely forgiving, and so respectable you could take her to church and the symphony and the St. Jude repertory Theatre. She never kept him awake with her tears. She demanded nothing and in return for nothing gave him everything he needed to do in a long day's work. There was no mess in their affair..."

Reading this particular section of the book literally made me smile....one of those: "I wish I had thought of that!" moments.