She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.