“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.” |
“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.” |
| #Reading |
“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.” |
“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.” |
“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention” |
