Paula Corredor

“There is nothing that is more profoundly healing than the act of solitary reading provided that what is being read is indeed permanent, deep, lasting work. Work that calls for all of your faculties in response. Work that calls you out of your own deep as it were. Work that transforms you. That is to say Shakespeare, Dante, Dickens, Jane Austen. We know who this authors are, we neglect them I think, at our own potential debasement.”
― Harold Bloom

“Why read, if what you read will not enrich mind or spirit or personality?”
― Harold Bloom

“I don’t believe in destiny, as I may have said. But I do believe now that when two lovers meet, there is already so much pre-history that only certain outcomes are possible. Whereas the lovers themselves imagine that the world is being reset, and that the possibilities are both new and infinite.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story

“he certainly never regretted his love for Susan. What he did regret was that he had been too young, too ignorant, too absolutist, too confident of what he imagined love’s nature and workings to be.”
― Julian Barnes, The Only Story