“..the ceiling is just a deep, dusty dome, like the inside of a skull. (Both are vaults, both repositories of knowledge.)”
“I didn't know then that this was how deep emotion most often comes, from opposite directions and at once, when you are least aware and farthest from yourself.”
“The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become”
“Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”
“...to be free is often to be lonely”
“nothing is ever what you imagine, is it?”
“Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight”