Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....

Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage.

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

I wouldn't want to enter into a relationship in which there was this inhibiting factor that said it can never be forever.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.

Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.