“She approached the car with a confident stride that implied she had lived on the block her whole life.”

“The likeness she had been searching for was on her face the whole time.”

“She smiled, not because she felt confident that she could think of a solution, but for the gratitude that she wasn’t quite so alone in her pursuit.”

“This was the place where someone had led her, only she could not remember who and could not remember when. Just that this was where she was now.”

“Speed did not feel exhilarating or thrilling anymore. It only felt like a rapid approach toward something distant that she couldn’t make out through the dirty windshield.”

“Her grandmother experienced them differently, as if they brought her remnants from another time, another life even, which she refused to acknowledge in any other context.”

“She stood before him on the porch now, as living, breathing proof that fortune had not tipped itself in his direction all those years ago.”