“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
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“Here, in this house, her recollections glowed like embers on the hearth, and each night, in their warmth, she’d take a memory or two down from the shelf and dance with them for a while.”
“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”
“There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.”
“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”
“For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.”