We all have slumbering realms of sensibility which can be coaxed into wakefulness by books. - Robertson Davies

Love, though sweet, must know its proper station
And never seek to rival education.

My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands — because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me.

God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!