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Thank God there’s an epilogue!

We are at the end. All of the loose knots have been restrung to the best Advantage. The brothers have coalesced, Jack does not have to escape and he offers Alan a collaboration

On your next book. Call it secrets of a forger’s workshop. My pen name is anonymous of course. I’ll help you make forgery detection into a science.

Appreciation takes practice. Keep trying, and you’ll improve. Even in the absence of natural talent. She cursed and the tray rattled. Geoffrey opened his mouth and closed it. Your grace she said, and rattled from the room.

There were no fish in the fish tanks of the Royal aquarium. By 1885 they were empty. This was its own metaphor for Claud and the Bramley‘s who lived under the water and ate chocolate cake

The words he muttered as he jerked in her arms made the most obscenely gratifying music she’d ever heard.

Less is more as the author lets the act speak for itself

Narration unnecessary. Prepare yourself for a great love in carnal greed. Elegantly descriptive.

What if my mother gave her ruby earrings to the surgeon? What if he cut into my hip and put one inside? One red teardrop.

That is the pain, the pain of the pelvis, the pain of the imagination.

Love is a wellspring of language. He paused. Stark lines appeared on his brow. Pain, on the other hand. Pain makes language run dry.

Layers of fray, telling the worst story of their lives together. An undeniable record, like the rings in a tree.

Such a smooth voice to be so clipped, so definite, so backward looking with no illusion.

You find art and politics exciting. Her browse came together. You find poetry exciting.
I find you exciting.… I’d rather hear your recipes than sonnets.

In a sentence the rightness of their togetherness is explained