“Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.”
“There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.”
“This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period. ”
“One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!”
“You never can have too many books.”
“Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.”