Terrible Quotes

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.