Status Updates From Creatures of Will and Tempe...

"To live — to live well, I should say — is to create art with one's body...with one's soul."

"If the purpose of life is developing one's self — if we are all artists whose canvas is our person — we must strive to realize ourselves as we ultimately wish to be."

"No one understands anything, not really. We only thing we do. I have nothing but respect for scientists and doctors and others who study the world, but even the most rigorous among them are only looking through a keyhole of what truly is."

"an MRS in fencing"...umm, would that have been a common expression at the time this book is set? for the most part the writing is good and in line with its inspiration (Oscar Wilde) but occasionally there are more modern phrases that get thrown in that take me out of the story. first it was Dorina wondering if Evadne would really "rat her out" and now MRS. it just seems a bit out of place for the setting