Nicole’s Reviews > The Wallcreeper > Status Update

Easterners hear 'coffee culture' and think of Vienna, not longshoremen idling their pickups at a drive-through. ...They hear 'beach' and think of sand, not prefab boathouses selling onion roses and buckets of beer.

Gernot had succeeded in weaving a fuzzy web of universal moral precepts that made even small-time vandalism stretch to the ends of time and space and beyond. I suppose that's what theologians learn in school.

The only smart leap I had ever made, in their opinions, was marrying Stephen. It was what set me apart from my sister, since secretary and bikini barista are not really such different professions when you get right down to it.