Inkmarks On Empty Dreams

What was really fascinating within the story, were the opposites attract kind of characters and  also, the reasons how they were accidentally brought together  : Professor Nicole Hathaway’s book promotion tour and  because she needed an assistant to travel with all over the world. Actually, she chased away the rest of the assistants, because she didn’t want them. Lilly’s uncle brought them to work together as he knew Lily needed a break from the spotlight of the TV lawyer that chased her family’s dark past and that Nicole needed support for her voyage. Their different characters brought up sparks at their first meeting, but Lily landed in Nicole’s home and somehow having tea with her mother and sister was right. They develop a friendship that unavoidable turns into a wild attraction. Yet, until they realized they truly love each other, there’s a full amount of adventure and especially that they believe the other’s straight.  Lilly respects Nicole and hides her past and she’s afraid of ...

“ They are suns which set as they rose, unobserved. Their death, when they die young, is heard by all their lovers at the same moment, for in Paris almost all the lovers of a well-known woman are friends. A few recollections are exchanged, and everybody’s life goes on as if the incident had never occurred, without so much as a tear .” It is an impressive book, that fascinated readers and critics among generations. The main narrator starts with an almost humble apologize that he can’t tell the story in a way that he could reveal the true feelings of the characters. It is a true story, because Alexandre Dumas Fils writes of his true love which was Marie Duplessis, a true courtesan. In few words, Marguerite is beautiful, intelligent and had a reputation of being discreet a witty lover, she had rich benefactors and was a “kept woman”, a courtesan of Paris The camellias were her favourite flowers and their color white/red were the sign of her availability. She needed love, that pure love th...