After we became a couple, she composed our time together. She planned days as if they were artistic events. One afternoon we went to Tybee Island for a picnic; we ate blueberries and drank champagne tinted with curacao and listened to Miles Davis, and when I asked the name of her perfume, she said it was L'Heure Bleue.
She talked about 'perfect moments.' One such moment happened that afternoon; she'd been napping; I lay next to her, reading. She said, 'I'll always remember the sounds of the sea and of pages turning, and the smell of L'Heure Bleue. For me they signify love.
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What did Dom Perignon say to fellow monks after he invented champagne? ... Come quickly, I am tasting the stars.
John GreenI'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: humor inspirational love romance death sex funny decadence party alcohol gatsby alcoholism fitzgerald champagne zelda champage 20s flapper
Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.
Ian FlemingTags: drugs drinking champagne
While they were dancing, the buoyancy that the champagne had given her left her all at once, and she slumped and felt suddenly tired and miserable about all the things that Denys should have said and done and hadn't. At the end of the dance there was one awful moment when she was bored. She didn't want to go and be kissed in the garden, she didn't want to drink any more, and Denys was in no mood for conversation; what was there to do? She was bored. It was a terrible, treacherous thought to feel like that when you were with someone you loved.
Monica DickensTags: disappointment boredom champagne young-love
The lovely effects of champagne were quite gone and only the nasty ones were left; the taste in the mouth, the splitting ache in the brow and the impotence of not being able to clarify one's thoughts.
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