Rules of Civility

by Amor Towles

when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundane—in the cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap in the bath—she has probably put herself in unnecessary danger.

Because when some incident sheds a favorable light on an old and absent friend, that’s about as good a gift as chance intends to offer.

Time has a way of playing tricks on the mind. Looking back, a series of concurrent events can seem to stretch across a year while whole seasons can collapse into a single night.

Labour to keep alive in your Breast that Little Spark of Celestial fire Called Conscience.