How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
She wrote to my father in Israel almost every day on expensive French stationary, and when she ran out of that she wrote to him on graph paper torn out of a notebook. (2.10)
How does this symbolize the course of many long-distance relationships? And how is this one different?
Quote #5
She spent a lot of time in the Bodleian Library reading hundreds of books and not making any friends. (2.10)
As we mentioned in the "Loneliness" theme section, there's a distinct connection between a love of literature and a life of solitude.
Quote #6
She started to work again. She roamed the house in a kimono printed with red flowers, and wherever she went a trail of crumpled pages followed. Before Dad died, she used to be neater. But now if you wanted to find her all you had to do was follow the pages of crossed-out words, and at the end of the trail she'd be there. (2.18)
The "crumpled pages" are interesting. It's almost as if, by discarding these precious words, she's encouraged to emerge from her lonely cocoon.