Masses and Motets
Jeffrey DeShell
"Maybe this sparseness wasn’t unusual, maybe they all lived like this, with few personal possessions, with nothing to tie them down to the secular world."
"Maybe this sparseness wasn’t unusual, maybe they all lived like this, with few personal possessions, with nothing to tie them down to the secular world."
"The long thin wedge. I had heard Mycroft speak of it before. It was a metaphor, I suppose, for whatever he did at Whitehall."
"She didn’t like umbrellas, so Verónica went out into the rain in a black raincoat, a waterproof version of the coat she usually wore on these cold days at the end of autumn."
"Out in the driveway, I scrolled through the contacts on my cell phone until I reached the listing for my business attorney, Gabe Harvell."
"After crossing the Albert Bridge, the train seemed to enter not just another county but another world."
"When greeting people she hasn’t met before, Aaron immediately sorts them into a category."
"The sun had not yet risen beyond the castle walls when the body was discovered."
"While you are at Station Two you will not tell anyone your former name, nor anything about yourself. Does anyone not understand that?."
"I have never seen the sea."
"Karissa arrived at the house on Harvard Boulevard at dusk and pulled into the garage."
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