I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had. Some people's emanations are very strong, some people create themselves afresh outside of their own body.
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Zum Autor"Books, for me, are a home. Books don't make a home - they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and space. There is warmth there too - a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm."
"If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes."
"You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own."
"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."
"Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth."
"I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning."