My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.

“By solitude the soul escapes from doing or suffering magic; it escapes from dul…”

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distanc…”

“Since he was very young he had known that in certain ways he was unlike anyone …”

“While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of pe…”