"Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal."

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She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.

— Deanna Raybourn