"How many times did you go out? What youre talking about is called a deus ex machina, the God from the machine, first used in Greek amphitheaters.
How does Ian get into this? The picture was of a flowered meadow and the month said May, but Paul kept his own dates now on a piece of scrap paper, and according to his home-made calendar it was June 21. This neat and tidy structure with its dark-red paint and neat cream-colored trim looked like the five-car garage of a well-to-do country squire masquerading as a barn. The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book, Annie, is because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.
When one woke, however, the tide began to go out and soon the rock was visible again, a barnacle-encrusted thing of inarguable reality, a thing which would be there forever, or until God chose to wash it away. He was only afraid she would hurt him.
He supposed that, in her deepening psychotic spiral, she had begun to see all of them as poor poor things. And there was not just one piling but two; the pain was the pilings, and part of him knew for a long time before most of his mind had knowledge of knowing that the shattered pilings were his own shattered legs.