“(the dog) A warm bundle of copper coat.”

“Her amethysts lay upon her skin like sugared violets on cream.”

“She loved him. It was a pale description of how she felt, but she could find no other words. To watch him, to hear him, to simply be in the same space with him made her heart sing.”

“She was afloat in bliss, grateful that she had a woman's body to tell him what words could not.”

“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.”

“They can take tomorrow and the plans we made They can take the music that we'll never play All the broken dreams, take everything Just take it away but they can never have yesterday They can take the future that we'll never know They can take the places that we said we would go All the broken dreams, take everything Just take it away but they can never have yesterday”

“Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.”