Sublime

But without a name, things get lost. The image, however, is clear.

"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody," she said, "would be to not be used for anything by anybody."

he had the eyes of an early-waking farmer.

He hears his dead undergrad mentor quoting Mark Twain. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. “In the field. I seem to have gotten a little lost.”

‘He was my echo. Everything I do is quieter now,’ she said to the other women in the closet.

wished with all my heart I could crawl into her and spend the rest of my life barking out one idiom after another. It mightn’t make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles.