“I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow.”
“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.”
“When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.”
“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
“I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't touch me, I'd die.”
“Reading it the night before, I'd wondered if it would be like that for me-if in one moment, I would finally understand her, know her, and understand the role I'd played in her dying. But I wasn't convinced enlightenment struck like lightining.”