The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

“Ya'll smoke to enjoy. I smoke to die.”

“If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out…”

“Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been d…”

“For she had embodied the Great Perhaps— she had proved to me that it was worth …”