Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
A. S. ByattI don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.
A. S. ByattIce burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.
A. S. ByattShe devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.
A. S. Byatt