“She also had a definite sense that here was a man on the verge of declaring himself, declaring his affections. She had been in this situation before, and she could tell that in this one respect, he was not departing from the playbook that all men apparently had.”
Which Can Be a Fierce Look
“Savannah remembered a book she had read years before when she was a little girl in which the heroine had tossed her curls. She thought of doing that now, but didn’t do anything. But the way she stood there at the doorway looked as though she just had tossed them.”
Motions of Time
“The time until Sunday morning went by so slowly that it ached, and after she spoke with him about meeting the next day, that time flew by so quickly there were a few moments she thought she felt the breeze in her hair.”
Unwanted Weight
“Thomas felt like one of the stones from the brook had somehow made it into his stomach, one of the rounded ones the size of a couple of fists.”
Which They Catch in a Minute
“As one Puritan put it, they sin till they’re out of breath.”
No, Really
“That’s the thing about truisms. They are often true.”
An Aggrieved Suitor
“He could not win her heart, as he well knew, but he was pretty sure he could have an impact on her heart. What he wanted to do was leave a rude dent in it.”
Eats Through Anything
“It was not a slight prideful vanity, but a corrosive and acidic pride, the kind that would degrade any intelligence that tried to hold it like a container.”
I Mean, No Telling
“Lambeth was the kind of man who lost his temper down deep inside. When Lambeth lost his temper, nobody knew where it had gotten to.”
Effectual Call
“He certainly didn’t feel like he had decided anything. He felt decided upon. It was more like some kind of strange revolt had overtaken him from behind.”