English food writer Nigella Lawson’s private library.
A little girl loves her bird ― Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.
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| — | Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey (via bookmania) |
