“Her right hand held a bottle of Pepsi that she'd clogged with peanuts and called a late lunch.”
“Want to have a short phone call with someone? Call them at 11:55 a.m., right before lunch. They'll talk fast. You may think you are interesting, but you are not more interesting than lunch.”
“The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.”
“Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way; but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.”
“She wanted this only, to snuff out the pulse of the shaky faith she'd held for much of her life.”
“She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated.”