“No one wants you to be uncomfortable, Frances. No, no. It’s comfort all the way! Please, won’t someone bring a pillow or two for Ms. Bagby?”
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
“Well I do like buttons, of course. For the most part. Especially those that gleam and dazzle. And plain ones that are flat and translucent. And old, Margaret. They must be old.”
Stacie Knotts, Crazy Days.
Notice that I’m not saying that they speak. Of course they don’t speak. Not exactly. Not as we think of speaking. No.
Nicholas Bruhns, Otto, the Magpie.
“The answer, Mary, is the word yes. It’s the awful word yes.”
Roberta Pym, The Complete Undoing of William Ambrose.
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