Christian Greer’s Reviews > Remembrance of Things Past Volume I: Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove > Status Update

“…she added with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.”

Mentally preparing myself for three thousand subsequent pages of mommy issues:

“…in that untroubled peace which no mistress, in later years, has ever been able to give me, since one has doubts of them even at the moment when one believes in them, and never can possess their hearts as I used to receive, in a kiss, my mothers heart, whole and entire, without qualm or reservation…”