“Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Manners are not like bonbons, Nina. You may not choose the ones that suit you best; and you certainly cannot put the half-bitten ones back in the box.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Nostalgia is an affliction. Life a fever or a cancer, the longing for what had vanished wasting a person away. Not just the unbearable losses, but the small things as well.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
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