“Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.”
“age is a terrible theif”
“Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.”
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
“I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.”