Sublime

infinitesimally

Wanting too much. To love, to be loved.

Oh, says Peter. I’m not sure, I don’t know. I suppose I would say, I try to. Ivan looks back at him calmly, somehow wisely. Same, he says. That I try to. Although it doesn’t always work, but I do my best.

She was beautiful. Complex. Frustrating. He’d never met a woman who was so wholly and resolutely herself. What the devil was he going to do about her?

Jamie is somehow both boring and hostile at the same time, always yawning and rolling his eyes when other people are speaking.