It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.

Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with him anyway?" "If you are so determined to bore me, I may just have to go home." Astrid sighed carelessly, "What a shame, when I am wearing such a pretty dress.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

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.

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

The living are made of nothing but flaws. The dead, with each passing day in the afterlife, become more and more impeccable to those who remain earthbound.

She considered herself unconventional.