Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.
Louise ErdrichHere is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.โจ Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
Louise ErdrichShe had always been a readerโฆ but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, sheโd been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the nextโฆThe pleasure of this sort of life โ bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life โ had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after anotherโฆThat she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.
Louise Erdrich