Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.

“I never see the sick;” Yasmin says. “They visit me through the stains and marks…”

“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”

“In love! She wafted through her day like a woman with a concussion.”

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”