Status Updates From Love for Lydia

"In the air there was a curious after-breath, gentle and almost warm, that snow brings down with it after the coldness of cloud has broken."

"It would all be so easy if all the things you meant to do were the things that happened."

"So much depends on the course of small conversations that, at the time, do not seem to mean very much, and I did not ask her why she could not sleep and what kept her thinking so much as listened to the nightingale."

"[H]ow to break down that special shyness that had all the frigidity of glass outside and yet was evidently seething madly within . . . . It took me some time longer to reach Miss Bertie's intuitive conclusion that there was something molten underneath it all."

Please be my antidote to The Scarlett Letter! It's summer. I need something with more laughter and love.