Status Updates From El festín de Babette

Overvej at blive kysset af en fyr (du ikke vil kysses af), løbe hjem til din far, få ham ham til at skrive et brev til fyren om du ikke vil se ham igen, for at han 16 år senere sender en husholderske hjem til dig som du nu skal vælge mellem at huse eller lade dø 🫪

'One is happy to meet one's friends again, she said, and yet it is then that one realizes how time flies. It is we who feel it, the women. From us time takes away so much.
And in the end: everything.'

And all the same,' she added thoughtfully, 'he was honest, an honest young man. He could really want a thing. Many men have not got that in them.'

For to die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words.