Megg’s Reviews > Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller > Status Update

p30... "It was," she would say without exaggeration, "as if part of oneself had also died," and that part was an ability to love spontaneously and trustingly. Isak Dinesen lived for the rest of her life with a fear which "approached real horror...of putting one's life into, and abandoning one's soul to something that one might come to lose again."

p 14... He claimed that the deepest loves were aroused by what could not love you in return. This idealism appealed enormously to his daughter, who echoed his words: "A great passion, such as does really and truly devour your heart and soul, you cannot feel for individual beings. Perhaps you cannot feel it for anything which is capable of loving you in return."

My first real biography. We'll give this a shot. Hoping it will have more story than her book.