1. ”A library is meant to be orderly, not pure.”
2. ”Each of us has a weak spot, an organ or system within the body where death gains access....This isn't mordant romanticism, it's merely fact.”
3. “It has always seemed miraculous to me that words actually do communicate meanings. That's not to say, of course, that they're reliable.”
4. ”It's impossible to be a keeper of books and not feel a gratitude that extends to something beyond the intellects that created them-to a greater Mind, beneficent and lively and inconceivably large, which urges reading and writing.”
5. “...the past wasn't the problem. She'd learned how to extinguish memory. But the future scared her; it wasn't like the past, it couldn't be refused....its danger lay not in what it would bring but what it would take away.”
6. “With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition.”
