"Sometimes people say thank you before even opening the gift—thank you for thinking of me. Ruth-Anne didn’t do that; she glanced at her watch while brusquely pulling off the wrapping paper. It was a soy candle. Not the cheaper short kind, but a column in a glass jar.
'It’s pomegranate currant,' I said.
She handed the candle back to me without smelling it."

–The First Bad Man, page 73

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