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Jane has learned that there is a fate more terrible than solitude: it’s solitude in the company of a husband who essentially misunderstands you.

— Maureen Corrigan Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

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Angels in the house always die in the books they preside over because early ascension into heaven is their reward—and because their goodness makes them boring.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

As Richard Rodriguez points out in his beautiful and incisive memoir Hunger of Memory, when academics now talk on about race, class, and gender, what they’re usually talking about is race and gender.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

Books just don’t register with this crowd. They think I lack common sense; I think they lack a part of their souls.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

As someone from our adoption agency said to us before we left, “You may have been waiting for your daughter for a long time, but she has not been waiting for you.”

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

In our daily lives, where we’re bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)

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