“In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
“Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.”
― The Pursuit of Love
― The Pursuit of Love
“tell me
of something fiercer
than the love with which
i gaze upon you
of something softer
than the tenderness
with which i hold you.”
―
of something fiercer
than the love with which
i gaze upon you
of something softer
than the tenderness
with which i hold you.”
―
“Sun, silence, and happiness.”
― The Pursuit of Love
― The Pursuit of Love
“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”
― Innocence
― Innocence
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