From the cafe we drifted toward the bookshop on the second block, a narrow place with stacks like careful skyscrapers and a resident cat named Tennyson. Jayne moved through the aisles with the precise slowness of someone looking for a specific memory. She pulled a slim volume from the poetry shelf and read a line aloud that made both of us pause: “There are small prodigies that live between the minutes.” She folded the corner and slipped it into her bag.