“One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.”

“One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.”

“Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.”

“I love you. On intense days. On good days. On long, exhausting work days. On really strange days when I find out that I have a long-lost brother. And most of all, on days when you make me smile, which happens to be every day I'm with you. You are not just a big-picture girl for me, Brooke Parker. You're the only picture.”

“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. ”

“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” ―”