“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
“A book is a present you can open again and again”
“Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.”
“I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me”
“Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.”
“Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.”