“Stephen, an elbow rested on the jagged granite, leaned his palm against his brow and gazed at the fraying edge of hi shiny black coatsleeve. Pain, that was not yet the pain of love, fretted his heart.”
- Many consider as the most cinematic quote of the whole book
- Stephen is grieving not from loss but guilt, haunted by his mother.
- Free indirect discourse: goes from exterior description to interior thoughts of Stephen