She bent her finger and straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved$$$ the dividing moment between not moving and moving$$$ when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest$$$ she thought$$$ she might find the secret of herself$$$ that part of her that was really in charge.
She raised one hand and flexed its fingers and wondered$$$ as she had sometimes before$$$ how this thing$$$ this machine for gripping$$$ this fleshy spider on the end of her arm$$$ came to be hers$$$ entirely at her command. Or did it have some little life of its own? She bent her finger and straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved$$$ the dividing moment between not moving and moving$$$ when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking.
It was always the view of my parents$$$" Emily said$$$ "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young$$$ nor experienced such appetite$$$ such impatience for the story to begin.
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving$$$ that she was needed.
The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them$$$ might have held them back$$$ could reach them. They were beyond the present$$$ outside time$$$ with no memories and no future$$$
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love$$$ but dispassionate and icily rational.
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes$$$ then the world$$$ the social world$$$ was unbearably complicated$$$ with two billion voices$$$ and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense$$$ and everyone thinking they were unique$$$ when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.
He wanted a father$$$ and for the same reason$$$ he wanted to be a father.
Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt$$$ though she moved through a blemished world.