Titti

“It is something, I thought, when a king can put a courtesan to the blush.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“Ricky clearly never hurried, he was his own lazy happening.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.”
― André Gide