Rachel Y’s Reviews > Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile > Status Update

I decided it was a lucky charm and that I would hang onto it all summer. I don't know why I haven't lost it, because I lose everything. I am holding it today; it is pink and warm and it makes me want to weep.

I forgot that there are times in life when nothing happens and when things don't cohere. I forgot about everyday goodness. Ideally I envisaged a life of baseness and moral turpitude.

I knew little of love, apart from its trysts, its kisses and its lethargies.