Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books — that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Jeanette Winterson
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my...
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my...
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my...
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my...
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For a child who grew up with such a strict and narrow minded mother, she was extremely intelligent. Maybe it was the books that her mother didn’t want her to read that made her even more curious. She would sneak into her mother’s room and read whatever books she could find. She didn’t care that her mother didn’t want her to read them, and she probably thought that there were no books in the world that she couldn’t read.

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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