Melissa

“My interest is a lonely one. I cannot trot it out at cocktail parties. I feel sometimes as if I have spent a large part of my life learning a dead language that no one I know can speak.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“-believed in carnal love. To us, a book's words were holy, but the paper, cloth, cardboard, glue, thread, and ink that contained them were a mere vessel, and it was no sacrilege to treat them as wantonly as desire and pragmatism dictated. Hard use was a sign not of disrespect but of intimacy.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader