"Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I…"

"But do you really think," he said, concerned, "that one can call psychology a science?" "Certainly. What else is it?"…"

"Are you the new neanias?" he said mockingly. The new young man. I said that I was. "Cubitum eamus?" "What?" "Nothing."

""Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror." [...] "And if beauty is terror," said Ju…"

"For a warning of what happens in the absence of such a pressure valve, we have the example of the Romans. The emperor…"

"The Greeks were different. They had a passion for order and symmetry, much like the Romans, but they knew how foolish…"

"[Henry and Bunny] seem to argue quite a bit." "Well, of course," said Camilla, "but that doesn't mean they're not fon…"

""You had better watch out," she said. "I have heard some weird shit about those people [...] like they worship the fu…"

"Since the two of them had been out of sorts for over a month, Henry in particular. Bunny, I knew, had been hitting hi…"

"If I threw myself off, I thought, who would find me in all that white silence? Might the river beat me downstream ove…"