The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke..

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become….

They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again..

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die..