Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.

Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.

Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see.

She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there.