“They arrived at a room full of people who spent their lives in rooms.” #wirn

“His face relaxes into a sheepish smile of recognition. His arm sling is gone, and even his cuts and scrapes are fading.” #wirn (RESTART by Gordon Korman)

“The room before her was clean; but in her own mind it existed with the permanence granted only to shambles.” #wirrn

“The argument going on in two languages would hardly have made sense in one, and the newcomer arrived to enter with what sounded like a third, for one of the men was the watchman whom he’d come to see….” #wirrn

“In that district the west wind forces the trees to lean longingly toward the east, and Michael followed their lead.” #wirn

Super Bowl Sunday reminds me of the last chapter of BILLIARDS AT HALF-PAST NINE (cue B Lombardi with his understandably uncomprehending response).

“Homes were for people’s lives to explode in like those steel-mesh hutches used by police bomb-disposal squads.” #wirn

“Ironically, the authorities decline to accept the role of enemy that George insists they assume. Slipping out of the binary trap that he has contrived for them, they convene a Special Medical Board, pronounce him shell-shocked, and send him…to a benign sanitarium.” #wirn