The novel is rescued life.
Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.
In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.
Decades go faster toward the end of a century.