“There's something reassuring in books and stories older than you are. Still talked about long after they've been written and long after their writers die. When the world around you is on fire, there's a certain kind of comfort in that.”
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“It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.”
“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.”
“There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.”
“Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.”
“....her life would be a giddy crossword, working down from some clues and across from others.”