“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”

“When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there. ”

“In the end, everything came down to money. It came down to what a person actually did, as opposed to who they thought they were”

“We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.”

“Henry watched her go. And then he looked down at the sword he was carrying. When it came to weapons, he thought sadly, sometimes words could be just as hurtful, and just as forbidden.”

“Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.”