The Red Leather Diary Quotes

“Florence has a passion for books. When she saw the one she was seeking, she would recognize it, as if the volume had belonged to her in a previous life.”
― Lily Koppel, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal

“How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.”
― Lily Koppel, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal

“We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.”
― Lily Koppel, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal

“Read until my eyes ached--- it was hardly important---but proof again that there is always an escape.”
― Lily Koppel, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal

“Manhattan was kaleidoscopic. Cubist. Just when she was feeling one way, the seasons changed, and so did she.”
― Lily Koppel, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal

“Where did all the creativity go?' she wondered aloud as she pondered the newly rediscovered story of her youth. 'If I was true to myself, would I have ended up living this ordinary life?”
― Lily Koppel, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal

“Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.”
― Lily Koppel, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal

“To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.”
― Lily Koppel, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life through the Pages of a Lost Journal