“Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at things yourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.”
― The Face of a Stranger
― The Face of a Stranger
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― Conversations with William Styron
― Conversations with William Styron
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
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“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
― Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
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