Sublime

You must admit there were times when you wondered if it was a mortifying passivity that had led you to this employment.

How quickly you go from being the youngest to the oldest person in a room, she thought.

and it had a dangerous, banister-less staircase,

chiaroscuro).

The Phantom Tollbooth

She knew what it was to be ravenous with ambition but to have your reach exceed your grasp.

“It’s nothing much. Bring it back next time so I can see the solution.”

Sam’s belief weighed heavily on her.

But being around Dov made her feel impatient with her twenty-year-old brain and the quality of its ideas.