“I'm not exactly certain what got into me, besides him.”

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

“That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.”

“I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.”

“And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do with it." VIOLA "Looks like I'm doing fine," I say.”

“Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.”