Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow. (p.13)
-Beatty was looking at him as if he were a museum statue. At any moment, Beatty might rise and walk about him, touching, exploring his guilt and self-consciousness. (p.33)
-"Sometimes I'm ancient. I;m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?" (p.30)
-"I'm antisocial, they say. I don;t mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it?" (p.29)
Beatty "I've had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe. They are all about nonexistent people, figments of imagination, if they are fiction. And if they're non-fiction, it's worse, one professor calling another an idiot, one philosopher screaming down another's gullet. All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost." (62)
He uses a very discriptive and he uses a lot of personification to give non living things life and the characteristics of a living thing. He also uses alot of emotions when it comes to the dialogue of the characters in his story.
