Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.
If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
...eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. Of course not all books are suitable for mealtime reading. It would be a kind of blasphemy to read poetry at table.
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
Marianne: That's what makes me so sad, life is so different from books.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.