“Buck goes through a certain retrogression which brings him back to a more primitive state”
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”
“When you want to bring something new into being, follow it through and bring it to a happy state.”
“If tears could bring him back, there'd be enough to bring him back a hundred times.”
“They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.”