"I wanted to live by books and in books and for books."

I'm beginning to realize that I simply enjoy how Solnit approaches the world and writing, but several of her perspectives in her memoir resonated quite a bit with me personally. The prose itself was, as always, stunning.

In terms of this book as a memoir, there are very few concrete events that I can recall after finishing but she excelled in communicating the feel of evolving as a person. I never manage to read her books at the same pace as I read most other books, and that's because every other page or so I have to pause and think about something she's just written - I mean that as a compliment. Her words make me think, but I also hardly want to put her words down.

"...suddenly something that is becomes something that was, and the way we live is not the way we lived."