"In some ways it's like my university, but the odder aspects remind me of other places I've been. Newcomb seems to turn its nose up at the idea of being mundane."

"The feeling of the place isn't entirely foreign, just different." The campus has a subtle personality to Gansey; secretive, aloof, wryly mischievous. "It's more like a place I'd search out than a baseline normal, so I'm not mad about getting dragged here yet."