Social etiquette and moronic ideas – pfft, you know, like “dignity” – stop most of us from doing that. But one of the things I adored about Stella Young was how, if she did like you, she’d rest her cheek in the palm of her hand, look at you dreamily and proclaim: “I like you.”

She first said this to me at a Melbourne party several years ago, in the exact moment I wanted to tell her the same thing. Happily, I’m not unique in this. Stella loved a lot of people; she made herself easy to love.

Source: theage.com.au