best letter

Clementine 2022-11-03 08:45:40

It is suitable to enjoy this literary and artistic movie quietly in a quiet study room under dim lighting on a warm afternoon.

I envy that era, when the mobile Internet had not yet emerged, and TV had only just appeared. The two distant people could only communicate through letters. Every time I received a letter, I was very happy. Books and letters are everything. A book and a cup of coffee are in the warm sunshine. Birds and dogs fly and pass by from time to time. Occasionally, I can smell the fragrance of flowers. People on the roadside do not rush. However, you can always find someone to talk to, and you share your views on the same book.

The two have exchanged letters for 20 years. Although they have never met, they have become strangers who are most familiar with each other in the world. The two have not seen each other for 20 years. For various reasons, although Frank has passed away, although Marco Bookstore has been demolished...

Helen said, "If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross, please give me a kiss, I owe it a lot..."

Now that impetuous restlessness has already invaded everyone, it is impossible to get back that quiet and scholarly feeling...

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84 Charing Cross Road quotes

  • Helene Hanff: Being used to the dead white paper and the stiff cardboardy covers of American books, I never knew a book could be such a joy to the touch.

  • Helene Hanff: [typing] WHAT KIND OF A BLACK PROTESTANT BIBLE IS THIS! Kindly inform the Church of England they have loused up the most beautiful prose even written. Who ever taught Dr. Tindall the Vulgate Latin. They'll burn for it, mark my words. It's nothing to me, I'm Jewish myself, but I have a Catholic sister-in-law, a Methodist sister-in-law, a whole raft of Presbyterian cousins, through my late Uncle Abraham who was converted, and an aunt who's a Christian Science healer. And I'd like to think none of them would countenance an Anglican Latin Bible if they knew it existed. As it happens, they don't know Latin existed.