with the hurts that had come, the troubles that had built, with the loss of hope and absence of trust and with a mental incapacitation over which nobody seemed willing or able to prevail.

Nothing now in the weeds and litter to interest her, and her whole life consisting of her own disappointment: helpless against the arrival of her bad temper, she kicked a crushed Red Stripe can at her feet.

Abruptly, and with unwelcome compassion for a woman he’d despised so cheerfully and for so long, he understood what loneliness had compelled Lorna to Bethesda’s door, and to all the church doors after it – recognised, in fact, her capacity to modify herself to please her company. Wasn’t he a different man to different men? It was among the least of

Pela primeira vez, desde que começou essa minha migração forçada, tive vontade de chorar e fiquei um bom tempo com a cara virada pra fora, fungando, querendo esconder as lágrimas, fingindo que olhava pela janela, vendo vagamente passarem avenidas e prédios que não me diziam nada, uns com essa cara de luxo padronizado que se espalha igualmente de Du