“Unpacking books is a revelatory activity. ”
“One is either packed or unpacked. There is no middle ground.”
“There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.”
“I must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words.”
“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”
“... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there were hours when even these failed of their effect; when the genius, the taste, the enthusiasm of the sublimest writers were felt no longer.”