Ayesha

“That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“Slurring is the cursive of speech...”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility