The Dismantling of an Era/ Amor Towles
Just as Mishka had come to understand the present as the natural by-product of the past, and could see with perfect clarity how it would shape the future, the Count now understood his place in the passage of time. As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations […]
Desire Cheats You/ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Absorbed in himself, he continued: “I’ve often thought that if I hadn’t got what I wanted things might have been different with me. I might have found something in my mind and enjoyed putting it in circulation. I might have been content with the work of it, and had some sweet vanity out of the […]
