“Books make up no small part of human happiness.”
“But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.”
“Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.”
“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”
“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.”
“I glanced up into round black eyes, ringed in yellow, but in some small part I saw humanity there. Sadness. It blinked. "Made," it said quietly, almost ashamed.”