“Of course I loved books more than people.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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