“Books were her salvation. As a child, she’d had a shelf of childhood favorites that she loved enough to read over and over again. But after, during the hospital stay and the long voyage and the cold days in Idlewild’s dreary hallways, books became more than mere stories. They were her lifeline, the pages as essential to her as breathing.”
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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.”