It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians of childhood, green as green milk, blue as laundry water, wine dark.

“In a good-natured way he had almost decided that Princeton was one part deadly …”

“This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-…”

“I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any p…”

“Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressi…”