The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. - Katherine Mansfield

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple — you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.