Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

“The daylight faded slowly: distances collapsed and the world turned indigo and …”

“It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a doz…”

“Even in the pettiest, most unpromising material, she had discovered, you could …”

“The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as …”