“He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.”
“Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.”
“Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.”
“More than anything else we should be concerned about meekness, or our standing in God's sight. If that standing is as it should be, nothing else matters. If it is not, nothing else counts.”
“He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human.”
“His voice sounded like molten metal. As if he had something thick at the back of his throat and it was making him sound deeper and richer than he actually was.”