“I remember when Aldo stopped pretending to reach for the bill. It was the year his ringtone was the hum of crickets and he turned his sights on that vast potential field of golden poppies—the internet.”
“Right after they told me at the gate that nobody can come in but immediate family and the band, a man rode up right behind me on a lime green scooter.”
“There was a clamoring above her, followed by rough voices. It was very distracting. She stood in the center of the narrow landing between the first and second floors, where she’d paused to catch her breath.”
“Early in his professional career, Ustad Ramzi had realized that the entanglements of married life would not let him devote himself fully to his art and its exacting discipline. He vowed to remain celibate to achieve perfection in his art and shut his mind to thoughts of women.”
“Even years after most of the central characters from Hillway had died, I still regularly dreamed about them.”
