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"'I have my selves, and there are a couple of those selves I'd be happy to give up.'"

"'I've had my share of worldly delicacy and drink...let your company be the sweetness that fills me,..not the pastry."

"Do any of us suspect danger in the coming hour when the prior hours held every goodness an hour might hold?"

"The key to selfishness. I didn't have to bother with it because someone else was."

"I knew all too well the relief in being free of what you've always been. Relief to shed all the expectation that drags heavy at the hem of oneself."

"He spoke of his acquisitions with great restraint, as if they were under his protection rather than ownership."

"We dressed in similar shades, mine always in a hue a few steps down from hers. If Maria wore midnight blue, I wore cornflower."

"What could be better...than to entertain guests with a game of guessing which was by the lady's hand and which by the maid's?" Games, of course, are another diversion of the rich."

"The rich are prone to crazes. They can't help it. The itch to spend. To acquire. Often couched in curiosity."

“I can’t explain it. Only that our nonsense was also a pleasure.”