“Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters”

“The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.”

“There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.”

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”

“Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the three heavens within the celestial kingdom. With few exceptions this is the salvation of which the scriptures speak. It is the salvation which the saints seek. (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966, p. 670.)”

“...the struggle for grammatical uprightness begins not on the printed page, but in the soul.”

“To seek pain as a formof salvation is to destroy oneself.”