So Much for That

There’s something especially terrible about being told over and over that you have the most wonderful life on earth and it doesn’t get any better and it’s still shit.

Shep applied his intelligence to solving problems; Glynis applied hers to inventing them, to constructing obstacles

soothed by the seduction of infinite delay,

she resented the resentment itself.

when you were working so hard only that you might stop working.

Water was yielding, biddable, and readily trapped