Kittredge

"And my ending is despair,  Unless I be relieved by prayer,  Which pierces so that it assaults  Mercy itself, and frees all faults.  As you from crimes would pardoned be, Let your indulgence set me free."

"BARNABY

"To make me slave to it, and for your sake  Am I this patient log-man."

"Now the hungry lion roars,   And the wolf behowls the moon,

"Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree 10 The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she."

"Exe obviously stands for Exton, a factory town on the south short of Omega Lake. It is a rather famous natural history museum with many showcases containing birds collected and mounted by Samuel Shade."

“we’re all just as wicked as can be, and that’s the Gods truth”

"Gradus, as he drove back to Geneva, wondered when be would be able to use it, that gun"

" Must I burn through; once more humbly assay

"(But this transparent thingum does require Some moondrop title. Help me, Will! Pale Fire.)"

"As a rule. Shade destroyed drafts the moment he ceased to need them: well do I recall seeing him from my porch, on a brilliant morning, burning a whole stack of them in the pale fire of the incinerator before which be stood with bent head like an official mourner among the wings of black butterflies of that backyard auto-da-f6"

"The ellipses suggest that he checks himself even in death, lest he reveal too much."

"Just as in the churchyard with Miles, the whole thing was upon us"

"you're tired of bly?"

"I wonder why she should be scared"

"Claire’s mother refers to Angela and Aaron as Irish twins, which confuses Claire because they are neither twins nor Irish, so she adopts Mrs. Hall’s term: stairstep sibling"

"she wasn’t really aware that hallmate was a thing, a relationship carrying some expectation of trust or camaraderie."