Little Nothing

“He starts toward her and for a moment, she forgets who she is.”

“Here is my giant arm, she seemed to be saying, allowing a lucky patron to reach out a finger and set the fat into pendulous motion. Here is my mighty thigh.”

“Pavla is a sentence they cannot finish, an equation they cannot solve”

“There is something enticing and discomfiting about viewing one’s life in perfect miniature.”

“‘His clients regard plumbing as a sin-exonerating miracle, a daily confession”

“‘Your guilt doesn’t do my any good,’ she says.”

“She looks like a rag doll sewn together from cast-off parts.”