Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.
Peter CameronOh, I could never go back to that work, it's so dreary and the last thing the world needs is another coffee table book.
Peter CameronWhat if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.
Peter Cameron... she had insisted on keeping the doors and windows shut, as if a sealed chamber could prevent death from entering, or life from leaving her.
Peter CameronBut are you glad you went to college? Was it a good experience?”
I suppose it was. Althought I can’t remember a single thing I learned. Except for Latin, and that’s only because the nuns literally beat it into us and I use it sometimes for the crossword.”
There were nuns at Radcliffe?”
Yes, it was all nuns.”
Are you sure? At Radcliffe?”
Maybe it was high school.”
But you aren’t Catholic,” I said. “I don’t think you ever went to a parochial school.”
Well, I distinctly remember nuns with sticks walking up and down the aisles as we recited Latin. Maybe it was a show I was in, but I doubt it because nuns don’t beat children in musicals.
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