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.
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Zum Autor"It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist."
"I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning."
"We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment."
"You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own."
"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."
"One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone."