“Surrender to the treasures of books instead of entering into pointless relationships with men, who neglect you anyway, or going on crazy diets because you’re not thin enough for one man and not stupid enough for the next.”
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“When I creep into our bed, there is the joy and relief of a person entering a secret dimension. Here, I shall be useless. The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love.”
― The Sentence
― The Sentence
“But in this notebook I would reconstruct the story I had begun, the story I kept beginning, until I had a story.”
― James
― James
“replied, there is more. There is the unseen, waiting to be seen, existing only in the spaces we admit we do not see yet.”
― Pet
― Pet
“Maybe that is what it takes to love someone. Finding a happy mystery you would like to unravel for ever.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“I use the word “love” here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace—not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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