Starman
- Contre Qui Rose
Against whom, rose, have you assumed these thorns? Is it your too fragile joy that has forced you to now become this armed thing? And from whom does it protect you, this exaggerated defense? How many enemies have I lifted from you that did not fear it at all? On the contrary, from Summer to Autumn you wound the affection that is given you.
Donna Tartt
- The Secret History Prologue
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. He'd been dead for ten days before they found him, you know. It was one of the biggest manhunts in Vermont history-state troopers, the FBI, even an army helicopter; the college closed, the dye factory in Hampden shut down, people coming from New Hampshire, upstate New York, as far away as Boston.
