“In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.”
“I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.”
“I am still of [the] opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.”
“... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.”
“I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof”
“A couple of hours after Rik left, Trance was still on the floor of the basement dungeon, staring at the mess around him.“Trance?”He looked up to find Wyatt at the bottom of the stairs, staring at him. Wyatt gave a long whistle as he looked around the room and then again at Trance. “Orgy gone wild?”Trance groaned. “Is there a fucking sign on my door that says ‘Bother Me Now’?”