Sublime

She had, he thought, one of the world’s great laughs. The kind of laugh where a person didn’t feel that he was being laughed at. The kind of laugh that was an invitation: I cordially invite you to join in this matter that I find amusing.

经常

they were still young enough to understand time in semesters

a Coming of Age story, or Bildungsroman, or maybe a Rags to Riches story—but

I was an uncomfortable child, a small adult biding my time.

All three of the sisters were beautiful, so went Trout’s tale, but only two of them were popular, one a picture painter and the other a short story writer.

kitsch,

But in the world of satisfying stories—her preferred domain—both of Olivia’s parents are so much less than they should have been.

The kind of guy some kids think is a child-eating troll but other kids suspect, correctly, is a secret wizard.