You can’t be another person’s honesty, child, but you can be your own.
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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 you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind."
"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."
"Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)."
"I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning."
"As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us."