Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
-You forgot something important! -What? -It's under my sweater! -WHAT?! -Me!
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
Stories never really end. . . even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said. . . "As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. . . and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower. . . both strange and familiar.
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.
It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.
It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.