“Books remember all the things you cannot contain.”

“But you cannot fly away from people who have flown away from you; you cannot fly into your own arms.”

“Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.”

“You cannot fly into your own arms.”

“My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don't know from one day to the next what's remembered and what's made up. Like when you memorize a poem, and for one small unimportant part you supply your own words. The meaning's the same, the meter's identical. When you read the actual version you can never get it into your head that it's right and you're wrong.”

“History remembers the velvet hearted.”

“The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.”