It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.