“She was staying. A little longer.V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.”

“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”

“Getting struck by lightning is like winning the lottery, except of course, not as lucky.”

“People play the lottery all the time unaware of how mind-bogglingly difficult it is to win. It seems like they take a different approach to probabilities. Their rationale must be, “Well, I can either win it or not win it, so my odds of winning are 50/50.”

“She has a winning smile. She wins, she always wins.”

“she was just…beaming at me, and I thought she’d won the lottery or something, her smile was that big. I asked what happened, and she said…” Park swallowed again. “She said, ‘You’re here.”’ He blinked at Tess. “‘You’re here.’ That’s all it was. That big goofy smile just because I was there. Nobody ever smiled like that at me before.”