As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

Michael Dirda
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As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction. In short, we can’t handle too much of a good thing. A good book takes the average person and makes them believe they’re really in love. They fall in love and then get hurt and fall out of love, and then they fall back in again. It’s like a roller-coaster ride for your emotions.

Source: Book By Book: Notes On Reading And Life

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