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

"In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory; or lo…"

"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…"