Both Uses of
fissure
in
The Lovely Bones
- She was getting so good the cracks and fissures were smaller and smaller.†
Chpt 10 *fissures = long, narrow cracks or splits; or creation of them
- Underneath her smile and exclamations to my sister and me were fissures that led somewhere deep inside her.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
a long, narrow crack; or its creation -- especially in the ground or in rock
or:
a crack in the unity of a group; or its creation
or:
a crack in the unity of a group; or its creation