Status Updates From Les Liaisons dangereuses

This will become one of my favourite books ever.

“It is very necessary that I should have this woman, if I should save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for whither may not thwarted desire lead one? O delicious pleasure!” This is what I wanted so badly from Jane Austen and Edith Wharton! Thank god for the grotesqueness of the French in this one and only case.