Status Updates From Emily de la Luna Nueva

“Everybody who has ever lived in the world and could string two rhymes together has written a poem on spring. It is the most be-rhymed subject in the world-and always will be, because it is poetry incarnate itself. You can never be a real poet if you haven't made at least one poem about spring.”

Her exchange with Father Cassidy is wonderful. I love real people who see others as real people. What a beautiful moment.

And I love when Cousin Jimmy tells Aunt Elizabeth that no person should ever have to kneel in front of another person other than God.

“My father was a very, very rich man,” said Emily deliberately.
Rhoda stared.
“I thought he hadn’t a cent.”
“Neither he had. But people can be rich without money.”