When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator!

It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.