“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.
I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― If He Had Been With Me
I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― If He Had Been With Me
“I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.”
― North and South
― North and South
“I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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