Sublime

At worst, the renouncers-of-the-state would take her away as the latest person acting suspiciously in our area, which would be, more or less, true.

insensate

The super-duplex, with its shared houses and unusual layout, mirrored the unusual layout of the Padavanos, or what was left of them. Sylvie and her sisters and William had built their own lives to suit themselves, to serve the size and shape they occupied.

It’s only you who doesn’t seem aware of that. With all their monitoring,’ she went on,

They knew trouble would come but expected it in degrees. Life so often arrives all of a sudden.

Hopes I hadn’t known I’d entertained were being threatened because of my having to become an apprentice-mother along with my mother.

trundling

then the man she left it for kept her dependent on an allowance from him, and even though his death could have made her rich again, she had rejected