Simply put, the best sentence(s) I’ve read this past week, presented out of context and without commentary.
I thought perhaps she was disappointed in me, but then I regarded her smile, the fashion in which she held her chin low, looking up at me with those gavehee eyes, and as she took my hand and led me back down the corridor to her room, my heart was a flat stone moving over water and my breath was held like the boy counting the skips of his good fortune.
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
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