“The frown again. So much contained there in the flex of a few muscles. All of history, it sometimes seemed to me. All of ours, at least.”
“Each life contains as much meaning as all of history.”
“It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile, which make sense because yesterday I frowned so much I ended up pulling my groin muscle.”
“With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.”
“All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter. ”
“His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.”