"There is nothing so unfathomable as the first remote awakening the heart and the senses" (Chapter 1, pg. 22.)

"Every time a teacher has wanted to impose a truth on me, I've been filled with revolt and defiance" (Chapter 2, pg. 37.)

"That's what is wrong with all of us, we're still wallowing in Romanticism. We dabbled in it too long when we were kids, and now we're in it up to the neck. What we need is a thorough scrubbing!" (Chapter 2, pg. 39.)

"His studio struck him as a place of horror where he could never bear to live again now that it housed the mutilated corpse of something he had loved" (Chapter 3, pg. 55.)

"Whenever they were together, fanfares cleared the way before them and they picked up Paris in one hand and put it calmly in their pocket" (Chapter 3, pg.64.)

He [Claude] was almost as inexperienced as she was; his knowledge...