"You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do."
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't."
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

A beauty. Flora.

High Society and Weaponized Etiquette.

Life should be gracious. Make it so.