“ Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer- Copy
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“ I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows- Copy
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“ What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with illadjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards! ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer- Copy
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“ Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer- Copy
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“ Isn’t that something? To know your own soul by hearsay, instead of its own tidings? Why should I let anyone tell me whether I had one or not? If I could believe I had a soul, all by myself, then I could listen to its tidings all by myself. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows- Copy
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“ I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows- Copy
- 3.9K
“ That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer- Copy
- 1K
“ I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer- Copy
- 1.7K
“ That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer- Copy
- 608
“ I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted. ”
- Mary Ann Shaffer- Copy
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