“We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching for that next hit of feeling, that next morsel… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“there is the smell, too, of course -- the reassuring smell of paper, new paper, soft old paper, recalling each person to the first… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“I find over the next few days that acceptance is the way to go. You have to bend your mind around from the path… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two strangers as… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“One age might pass over what another prized, and the next age might then revere it” — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are… — deborah meyler Copy Share Image
“I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded of the… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“I keep trying, and manage some workmanlike stuff that doesn't require inspiration, and then I check my phone, check my email, go on Facebook.… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“Things didn’t seem promising initially. I arrived like everyone else did, after swearing that I wasn’t a spy or guilty of moral turpitude, and… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“I turn to Mrs. Kasperek; this feels urgent to me. "Do you know what Caliban says when he wants to take away Prospero's magic?… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“Used books,” as if someone else has had the best of them and you get the sere husk, or the lees, as if a… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.” — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
