“It burned me from within. It quickened; I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
“She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.”
“Far be it from me to keep a woman from her book. That could become dangerous.”