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A book is a match in the smoking second between strike and flame.
Archie says books are our best lovers and our most provoking friends.
Books can really ...
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It’s good to be reminded that the world is full of stories that are, potentially, at least as painful as yours.
There’s the simple love of books, of course: the knowledge that here is an escape, a chance to learn, a place for your heart and mind to romp and play.
Our pasts are as unfixed as our futures, if you think about it. And I like the freedom I have to tell a different story.
‘I’m going to say … niche.’ Usually when people use the word ‘niche’, it’s their way in to a request for erotica and I had a vision of spending months trying to track down some bit of Victorian porn or other.
if you work on being invisible, you can’t really be annoyed when people don’t take any notice of you.
suppose it’s the fact that these small memories come from the kind of tiny reminders that you simply can’t predict, and so can’t protect yourself from, and they catch you, paper cuts across the heart.
Words do sound different in the air.
the difficulty of admitting that the places in your life when you’re most productive, most excited, most brilliant are when you’re also most ill.
first lines did not define last pages in real life the way they did in books.
But then again, as nobody ever says, it’s not how you fall, it’s how many people are there to pick you up and clean your knee with disinfectant and tuck you up on the sofa with some hot chocolate and a book until you feel better.
‘And be brave, Loveday. Ask the questions you want to ask. Seek out the people you want in your life. It might not be as hard as you think.’
‘there’s something to adore in every single person who is here. Everyone.’
And preferably a long way from me and Lost For Words.
And there was no point crying over spilled blood anyway.
What looks good on holiday sits on the borderline between untenable and stupid when you get back to your life.
