“It felt like a small forever.”

“And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.”

“I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.”

“The joy's gone out of me like the pee from a small boy in a swimming pool on a hot day.”

“I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.”

“I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening.”

“He started to list the coin vanishes he had mastered, which reminded him of the coin he had tossed into Laura's grave, and then, in his head, Audrey was telling him that Laura had died with Robbie's cock in her mouth, and once again he felt a small hurt in his heart.”