Sublime

accretion

pettishly.

the suede heels she’d had resoled multiple times.

It would be easier to see her living in a gingerbread house than a convent.

Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.

Pauline, twenty pounds thinner, looked like a more concentrated version of herself: whittled down, somehow, pared down to her essence.

Flanagan.