The trouble is that the leap does not know the difference between a genuine pattern and a mere resemblance, between things that truly share a category and things that merely look alike.

Coded bags of white powder and heritage baking flour look, to the untrained panicking eye, all but identical.

My brain performed its lightning-fast retrieval flawlessly.

It just retrieved the wrong drawer, because the labels on the two drawers, seen in a hurry, are indistinguishable.

Chapter 7 — Sweet Jacqueline

The problem was that the worst thing it could possibly be made absolutely no sense, because the person it belonged to was Jacqueline.

Sweet Jacqueline.