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The tough rose mouth says No one can hurt me, but the soft blue eyes say Yes you can and you probably will.
They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.
He feels naked when speaking about things he really loves.
I broke up with him because talking to you made me remember how important it is to share a sensibility with someone, to share passions. I probably sound silly.”
“No one travels without purpose. Those who are lost wish to be lost.”
A sentence occurs to her: The day my father shook my hand, I knew I was a writer.
It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn’t working.
Why is any one book different from any other book? They are different, A.J. decides, because they are. We have to look inside many. We have to believe. We agree to be disappointed sometimes so that we can be exhilarated every now and again.
You totally can describe a hospital room. It’s gray. The art is the worst art you’ve ever seen. Like stuff that got rejected by the Holiday Inn. Everything smells like someone is trying to cover up the smell of piss.”
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.”
As a kid, the teachers thought I was a slow reader, so I never got the knack for it.” “You tell a kid he doesn’t like to read, and he’ll believe you,” Ismay says.
