And it was cowardly for a man to say he would kill himself, but Septimus had fought; he was brave; he was not Septimus now

“So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive l…”

“To talk of 'prizing her open' as if she were an oyster, to use any but the fine…”

“There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and…”

“The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except t…”