“Full of life and light; blissfully unaware of all the future had in store.”
“After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.”
“She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.”
“In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.”
“Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.”
“All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.”