Speak, Memory--Ch. 10

"Had I been competent to write his epitaph, I might have summed up matters by saying--in richer words than I can muster here--that all emotions, all thoughts, were governed in Yuri by one gift: a sense of honor equivalent, morally, to absolute pitch." --Vladimir Nabokov, page 200

I just love Nabokov's way of bringing back themes in his work--from talking about a single seemingly unimportant incident (at least at the time it was occurring) and then lifting it up into higher meaning. In Chapter 10, he seamlessly takes us from a story about his cousin to Yuri to his first encounters with love.