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“She did not care for children’s books in which the children grew up, as what “growing up” entailed (in life as in books) was a swift and inexplicable dwindling of character; out of a clear blue sky the heroes and heroines abandoned their adventures for some dull sweetheart, got married and had families, and generally started acting like a bunch of cows.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“Running might take her forward, it could even take her home; but it couldn’t take her back—not ten minutes, ten hours, not ten years or days.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“All her grace was in her vagueness. Her voice was soft, her manner languid, her features blurred and dreamy.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“What if there was a disease in Alexandria, she thought, and everybody died but me?
I’d go live at the library, she told herself. The notion was cheering. She saw herself reading by candlelight, shadows flickering on the ceiling above the labyrinth of shelves. She could take a suitcase from home–peanut butter and crackers, a blanket, a change of clothes–and pull together two of the big armchairs in the Reading Room to sleep on…”
― The Little Friend
I’d go live at the library, she told herself. The notion was cheering. She saw herself reading by candlelight, shadows flickering on the ceiling above the labyrinth of shelves. She could take a suitcase from home–peanut butter and crackers, a blanket, a change of clothes–and pull together two of the big armchairs in the Reading Room to sleep on…”
― The Little Friend
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