I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and… - Helene Hanff
I liked reading about the nun who ate so dainty with her fingers she never dripped any grease on herself. I've never been able to make that claim and…
- Helene Hanff
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. - Helene Hanff
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age? - Helene Hanff
What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?
I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die. - Helene Hanff
I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone … - Helene Hanff
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone …
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I rea… - Helene Hanff
My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of page 20, say, I rea…
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much. - Helene Hanff
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghos… - Helene Hanff
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghos…
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution. - Helene Hanff
I never overcame my conviction that writing for commercial television was a kind of prostitution.
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