Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.
Mary Ann ShafferI love seeing the bookshops and meeting the booksellers-- booksellers really are a special breed. No one in their right mind would take up clerking in a bookstore for the salary, and no one in his right mind would want to own one-- the margin of profit is too small. So, it has to be a love of readers and reading that makes them do it-- along with first dibs on the new books.
Mary Ann ShafferWe read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
Mary Ann Shaffer