> "As you grow older you become an immigrant from a vanished country, a country some of your peers may remember but the young may find unimaginable or incomprehensible."#ReadMoreWomen [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadMoreWomen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] https://t.co/DJl8fQTvhW — Read More…
> Some of the mail was important and personal, not just bills. It was exciting to get a letter: the paper and handwriting told you something, as well as the words. * Rebecca Solnit "We're Breaking Up" in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness referred via Brain Pickings…
> When you hold a (real) book in your hands, the molecules in your body rejoice. —Maira Kalman via Explore [http://explore.noodle.com/post/102425437938/when-you-hold-a-real-book-in-your-hands-the] In the same post, Rebecca Solnit's "a book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.” is…
> “For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of—to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and…