“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”
“When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”
“Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.”
“When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.”
“You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.”
“It's the same thing when I'm gardening or reading. It's just me and what I'm doing, or the world I'm reading, and nothing else.”