"Oh please. I came here to get away from this. I thought I could get away from this."
Chap. 1, p. 12

"If you have to answer questions every time, how are you ever going to learn to forget?"
Chap. 1, p. 13

"It would be better in London, it would be better in the company; I wouldn't be Nat, I would be Puck."
Chap. 1, p. 13

"And he laughed. It wasn't as if he thought my name was funny, it was a weird laugh, sort of triumphant."
Chap. 2, p. 20

"I thought: don't go, please don't go. It wasn't because he was William Shakespeare. I just knew that I liked being with him, more than with anyone I knew."
Chap. 6, p. 50

"...blood on the floor, bright red, a pool of blood, spreading..."
Chap. 7, p. 67

"This company is a family, close and closeted. We all know what that miserable boy is at, and I...