History Unravels; Circumstances, Following Their Natural Inclination,

We All Need A Past - That's Where Our Sense Of Identity Comes From.

Giving Presents Is One Of The Most Possessive Things We Do, Did You Realize That? It's The Way We Keep A Hold On Other People. Plant Ourselves In Their Lives.

I Didn't Want It To Be A Book That Made Pronouncements.

There's A Preoccupation With Memory And The Operation Of Memory And A Rather Rapacious Interest In History.

Forever, Reading Has Been Central, The Necessary Fix, The Support System. Her Life Has Been Informed By Reading. She Has Read Not Just For Distraction, Sustenance, To Pass The Time, But She Has Read In A State Of Primal Innocence, Reading For Enlightenment, For Instruction, Even. ... She Is As Much A Product Of What She Has Read As Of The Way In Which She Has Lived; She Is Like Millions Of Others Built By Books, For Whom Books Are An Essential Foodstuff, Who Could Starve Without.