B de Ti Beatriz

These are not beautiful, expensively bound, well-ordered books with high-flown dedications from famous fellow authors. No, they are the battered, treasured, much-used library of a working woman, mostly paperbacks, stuffed full of notes, marks, clippings and reviews, written all over from cover to cover in Fitzgerald's clear, steady, italic handwriting. But these books are like Wharton's much grander library in this respect: they provide the entry point to a remarkable writer's reading life.

Hermione Lee on Penelope Fitzgerald's books

Cut me anywhere & I bleed too profusely. Life has bred too much "feeling" of a kind in me.

Virginia Woolf

pour Luís

I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot