Status Updates From Stonecliff

"I felt the loneliness of the evening, the emptiness of the land...and I thought of all the brave, sad, lonely, merry people of Granville's stories, the loving girls whose ghosts must roam those cliffs and haunt the gardens of oak and cyprus in which they had lived their insubstantial lives..." -- A mesmerizing piece of fiction so far. One of Robert Nathan's later works, and some of his best writing.

"It was at this moment that it occurred to me for the first time that I might fall in love with her."

"The air was cold and moist, the heavens clear and starry overhead; the sea moved in deeper darkness below us; and again, as from the window of my room, I smelled the over-sweet fragrance of jasmine."