Choice little moments from If Then by Matthew De Abaitua.
"And then events accelerated. No, James corrected himself, acceleration implies forward movement. Events lateralized. Events networked."
"Remnants of corporate dialect remained in Alex’s speech"
“Irrevocable decisions form character, James,” said Alex. “It’s a hard decision but by your age, you should have used up all the easy ones.”
"The women spoke in a high questioning tone so as not to disturb the room with assertions"