“I was fond of him immediately, in the way we feel kinship to those who compliment us.”
“those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...”
“We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.”
“The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.”
“...everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess...the scattered moments of kinship we feel with others are, when reduced to their most basic elements, accidental discoveries of kinship with ourselves. ”
“Gus: There are still bears out here. Black bears who feel no kinship to black men.”