“Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.”
“They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.”
“Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of trunks, of course, is that everything has to be lifted at to get things at the bottom. It took a remarkably long time- till the 1600s- before it occurred to anyone to put drawers in and thus convert trunks into chests of drawers.”
“One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.”
“When a woman acts as though she’s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything.”
“I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat”