Trance is fragile.

“It is a burden...(M)ake no mistake about that. Any great gift or power or talen…”

“But the slice-of-life novel is really not so much a world apart as an interlude…”

“The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the l…”

“Go away," he said. "Go away. I wish you had never come here. I wish I had never…”