“He wants awfully to be inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.”

“But he does look stupid.'Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.”

“For the risk of it, for the sheer surprise of pressing one's nose to the glass and finding someone staring back on the other side.”

“He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.”

“You don’t want to finish our drinks?”He took my hand, and pressed his lips against the inside of my wrist. “I’m alreadyintoxicated.”

“Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.”