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“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”
― William Trevor

“People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.”
― William Trevor, Love and Summer

“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

“Venice can wash through you all the memories you have never made.”
― glenn haybittle, The Way Back to Florence

“It’s in our dreams that we pull people towards us.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree

“The key to understanding every story is to find yourself in it.”
― Glenn Haybittle, In the Warsaw Ghetto

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

“Everything changes, sooner or later. Time moves along, without constraints—no matter how hard one may attempt to pause, to alter, to rewrite it.”
― Christine Mangan, Tangerine

“Time moves quickly, I have found, turning people and places into first history and then later stories.”
― Christine Mangan, Tangerine

“She was put together nicely, with the intention of others not noticing. There was nothing about her that clamored for attention, nothing that demanded to be seen, and yet, everything was done exactly in anticipation of such notice.”
― Christine Mangan, Tangerine

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“If you don't take the time to look, you'll never manage to see anything.”
― Paul Auster

“You know, I don’t think two people are ever really equally in love. The one is always besotted, and the other merely lives off that love. That’s love for you, I guess.”
― Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice