I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

For it must be very lonely being dead.

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.