“But of course, the Count also wept for himself. For despite his friendships with Marina and Andrey and Emile, despite his love for Anna, despite Sofia – that extraordinary blessing that had struck him from the blue – when Mikhail Fyodorovich Mindich died, there went the last of those who had known him as a younger man.”

“But of course, the Count also wept for himself. For despite his friendships with Marina and Andrey and Emile, despite his love for Anna, despite Sofia – that extraordinary blessing that had struck him from the blue – when Mikhail Fyodorovich Mindich died, there went the last of those who had known him as a younger man.”

— Amor Towles