Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
Of course I loved books more than people.
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.