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“Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.”

Book:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“Desire for a person is not the same thing as having that unique appreciation and need for them, nor is affection. Desire waxes and wanes, and affection can be felt without long-standing commitment. But 'You matter to me' means that the long haul is accepted, even willingly taken on: I will carry you, hold you and applaud you, from here on in. Dependability: I will be here to take care of you. And when you are gone, I will be here to remember you.”

Love Desire Affection Dependability

Book:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.”

Life Death Life Lessons Grieving Grief And Loss Grief Inspirational

Book:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“We are what we love to read, and when we admit to loving a book, we admit that the book represents some aspect of ourselves truly, whether it is that we are suckers for romance or pining for adventure or secretly fascinated by crime.”

Book:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.”

Reason Sadness Sorrow Reasoning Greif Greiving

Book:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again. p.20”

Healing Escape Into Living

Book:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

“Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.”

Life Stories Remember Memories History Memoir Moving Forward Live Looking Back Lives Remembering Forward Forward Movement Backward Stories Life Looking Backward Lives Remembered

Book:Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

Source: Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading