When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

My ambition is to one day shed my wardrobe and figure out how to look like Gilles Bensimon - or a famous stylist - who travels with a Birkin bag and minimal accoutrement and somehow looks cool.

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

‎He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.