Sublime

ruth

“And what is love, in the end?” Alabaster said. “Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else’s journey through life?”

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.

Summer: There’s only one way to make sure a hot, high-pitched voice buckle bunny doesn’t take over all your holidays. Winter: How? Summer: Marry Theo yourself. Winter: Ha. That’ll be the day.

And next to him, Sadie felt herself diminish.

And if it was for any sort of a fine handsome woman, but for a little fistful of a woman like Kitty Keary, that’s not four feet high hardly, and not three teeth in her head unless she got new ones!