Sharing 2 teaser sentences from my current read.


But- he stopped and looked at me, very quiet, very hard: there was a hardness in him I had barely sensed before.  Within this hardness moved his love. moved as a torrent or as a fire moves, above reason, beyond argument, not to be modified in any degrees by anything life might do.
 
pg.76-77  If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin