“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...”
“Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.”
“Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.”
“What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.”
“I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.”
“We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.”