Melissa Green Quote

I opened Shakespeare at the age of nine and was electrified. I crept closer and closer to language for protection. I hoarded words like money... I depended on language to save me. And after many years of sorrow and illness, it did.

Color Is the Suffering of Light: A Memoir (1995)

I opened Shakespeare at the age of nine and was electrified. I crept closer and closer to language for protection. I hoarded words like money... I...

I opened Shakespeare at the age of nine and was electrified. I crept closer and closer to language for protection. I hoarded words like money... I...

I opened Shakespeare at the age of nine and was electrified. I crept closer and closer to language for protection. I hoarded words like money... I...

I opened Shakespeare at the age of nine and was electrified. I crept closer and closer to language for protection. I hoarded words like money... I...