Carolina QuotesI had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross over and arrive on the safe side. There you would drink the strong waters and become addicted, perhaps demented — but a Reader.
Helen Bevington Connected to the Carolinas
Source
The House was Quiet and the World was Calm (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971), pp. 25–6
- year
- 1971
- locator
- pp. 25–6
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