If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon.... The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.

The Secret History: A Novel (ed. Ballantine Books, 1993) - ISBN: 9780804111355