“His arrival detonated two sheepdogs that began barking even before they emerged at a dead run from behind the garage. ”
“The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.”
“In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet.”
“Is princess here?” Coach called from his office.“The she-wolf has arrived!” Evan yelled back.Coach emerged from his office and stood in front of us. Oh God, he had the short shorts on again.”
“When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of time and memory, called history, the dreams began to come.”
“I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.”