“Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)”

“Si tuvieras que elegir entre la cordura, tu vida tal como la recuerdas, antes que la verdadera inestabilidad, ¿qué elegirías como manera adecuada para vivir de un estudioso?”

“These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.”

“As an adult I have often known that peculiar legacy time brings to the traveler: the longing to seek out a place a second time, to find deliberately what we stumbled on once before, to recapture the feeling of discovery. Sometimes we search out again even a place that was not remarkable itself - we look for it simply because we remember it. If we do find it, of course, everything is different. The rough-hewn door is still there, but it's much smaller; the day is cloudy instead of brilliant; it's spring instead of autumn; we're alone instead of with three friends. Or worse, with three friends instead of alone.”

“For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.”

“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”