The Best Moments In Reading Are When You Come Across Somethinga Thought, A Feeling, A Way Of Looking

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something–a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things–which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours”

— Alan Bennett, The History Boys

I came, I saw, I fangirled, I never calmed down

What are you playing at?

Words. Words. They’re all we have to go on.

“Heads.”

— Rosencrantz, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

“Your strange face haunts me.”

— Iris Murdoch, from a letter to Wallace Robson written c. April 1952