Can Vanity and Happiness coexist?

Love and War.
RILO KILEY

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

The nearest book

She said she hadn't, but Jean herself came along not much later, walking alone through the rain. She had been sight-seeing in a palace, she said, and had got lost when she left it. "You go right upstairs and take a hot bath," Mrs. Coggins said.
from The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales by Elizabeth Spencer

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag three people.

The Long Romance

It wasn't that they were so good at staying together.
It was just that they were so bad at breaking up.