Rebecca Friedman’s Reviews > The Age of Innocence > Status Update

Read about Ellen going from DC to Boston and sitting in the Boston Common on the day after I flew from DC to Boston and on the day I went to the Boston Common!! Love when life lines up this way. I feel for sure I was meant to read this book at this specific moment.

PS: The Age of Innocence remake starring me as Ellen and Jacob Elordi as Newland when???

Also so interesting that the stereotype was one that Americans are cold and formal and Europeans were chatty and overly friendly.

“…he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. ‘After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s worst angles,’ he reflected; but the worst of it was that May’s pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep.”

Oh my god

“The next morning Archer scoured the town in vain for more yellow roses. In consequence of this search he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to any one, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life.”

“the things she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against” ?

“He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gaslight of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.”