Sublime

laudable

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.

That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned

He wasn’t at all difficult to replace, so he went home and the business carried on existing.

his scent, barely there, just soap and clean skin;

It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”

Olly’s laugh is a notch too loud. His pupils have morphed into love-hearts and, for the nth time squared, I wonder what love feels like on the inside because externally it turns you into the King of Tit Mountain.

the midpoint in The Godfather is when Michael shoots the policeman and his life changes for ever;