the friday 56

The Friday 56

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader
(If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it)
*Post it.

I'm reading Still Lives.

Behind me, voices amplify in the first room; people are starting to arrive in droves. Below me, the cold floor. There's another gallery to this exhibition, but I don't move.