I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and I use a fork.
Helene HanffAnd for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.
Helene HanffStanding there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
Helene HanffI have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who had to take it for her Ph.D. They told her to write an essay in Early Anglo-Saxon on any-subject-of-her-own-choosing. โWhich is all very well,โ she said bitterly, โbut the only essay subject you can find enough Early Anglo-Saxon words for is โHow to Slaughter a Thousand Men in a Mead Hallโ.
Helene Hanff