Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.