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“When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All that's left behind is a chunk of gray plastic. ~ Lev Grossman”

“The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: "And more, dear sir, many more," which freezes the adversary and plunges him into a state of awed admiration. But I find it merciless and angst-generating. Now I have fallen back on the riposte: "No, these are the ones I have to read by the end of the month. I keep the others in my office.”

“Though I doubted I would ever be blessed with a mate of my own, I still wished to plan for the possibility. The bookstores in Starzzia are popular among the human females who live here. Eventually, I went from purchasing books from Earth to further my studies to buying them in the hope that one day I would have a mate of my own who might enjoy them. And offspring, too. I have collected many children’s books as well.”