Status Updates From Last Summer in the City

"It’s always like that. […] It’s the best ones who leave."

"She's beautiful, my dear, and beautiful people are always unpredictable. They know that whatever they do, they'll be forgiven. […] It's even better than being rich, because beauty, my dear, never has a whiff of struggle or effort about it, but comes directly from God and that's enough to make it the only true human aristocracy, don't you think?"

“There was no trace of sorrow in her, or of passion. Her whole demeanor exuded independence, an independence so absolute as to make you think she hadn't come into the world like everybody else, in pain and blood, but had simply emerged, like a butterfly.”

“I thought about how all these farewells had changed my life. But it’s always like that, we are what we are not because of the people we’ve met but because of those we’ve left.”