The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.