The more blessed she felt on earth, the more rarely she turned to heaven.

His mind was a small thing with big holes through which passions regularly seeped out.

The thinnest covering of luck was on him like fresh dew. While he slipped in and out of consciousness , the position of the planets, the music of the spheres, the flap of a tiger moth's diaphanous wings in Central Africa, and a whole bunch of other stuff that makes shit happen had decided it was second-chance time for Archie.

This is what divorce is: Taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

Ryan's freckles were a join-the-dot's enthusiast's wet dream.

..and the devil won another easy hand in God's poker game.

... dressed all in yellow spreading warmth and the promise of sex.

... and catholics give out forgiveness at the same time politicians give out promises and whores give out.

Is there anything more likely to take the shine off an affair that when the lover strikes up a convivial relationship with the lovee's mother.