16. How to measure awesome wealth. "Wasting treasure on minor effects."
15. "Are you?" "Yes, I am."
14. Anything that moves on your desk, crush it.
13. "Stop eating from the delusional loaf."
12. "For reasons I know and you apparently do not, you have made a bad decision."
11. The sadness of a breakfast proffered and "I can't. I'm working."
10. "Let us depart and face the flu-ish fears of this swine fall."
9. He thought: I have them half convinced. He didn't know whether he'd see her again. Maybe shopping at the department store, an English invention with a good Belfast translation. He knew he'd never see her again if he stayed a prisoner in this dark pantry. "Larder," she'd painlessly insisted.
8. Who do you want to root for? Pick a character.
7. [blank] I don't know why.
6. "Hobby group vs. advocacy group." Calling for the manyeth time.
5. "I have a glass of wine. I have a fruit fly. Together, we will conquer the season."
4. I'm a cynic, the family priest freely admitted. Yet buoyantly hopeful. What does that make me? Attitudinally androgynous?
3. "I had my fingers crossed so hard the nails turned blue."
2. Me time.
1. "Blessings on your new year." What was the right way to greet a priest, president of a college? "Fuck if I know." Not that of course. No F-bombs.
They're here.
Every scene, every step inside that scene,
is a vertebra in a spine that unfolds the story.