“Russell looked as though he were in very dire need of a trip to the bathroom.”
“Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.”
“I figured Maxine probably had bathroom trips preplanned and efficiently choreographed.”
“When he went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror, he thought his features were changing. I look like a gentleman, he said to himself sometimes. I look younger. I look like someone else”
“Even though she had been warned, she tripped over the bike. She probably tripped because she'd been warned and was telling herself not to trip over the bike. She did that sometimes. It was often easier not to know what obstacles were in the way.”
“I came," he said.Good Lord! If there were an orator-of-the-year award, he would be in dire danger of winning it.”