Quotes About Perusing

Compared to the complexity of understanding grief, reading Foucault or Blanchot is like perusing a children's picture book.

flipped backward from the appendix and started looking

I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing; that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow-creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold, but not our brother-men—not even the best and kindest amongst them.

There are people who read very loud, and who have the appearance of giving themselves their word of honor as to what they are perusing.

Tubby flipped through the magazines stacked on