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It's an elegant life.

Sunday, 13 July 2014

Fraisier: " The French version of a strawberry shortcake and the one I have come to love more than the Japanese one."
recipe here: engnatalie.com



"They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat. "


Donna Tartt, The Secret History





" My first impression of Sofia was that she was quiet and graceful. And that she had taste, and when I say taste, I mean judgment in really subtle things. She always knew the feeling she wanted to convey in everything she did. "

-Spike Jonze on Sofia Coppola






Ralph and Russo



Leonard Bernstien




" I wouldn’t exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though…I mean when she was talking and she got excited about something, her mouth sort of went in about fifty directions, her lips and all. That killed me. And she never really closed it all the way, her mouth. It was always just a little bit open, especially when she got in her golf stance, or when she was reading a book. She was always reading, and she read very good books. She read a lot of poetry and all. She was the only one… "

-Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye



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