“To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend I suppose I ought to have realize its ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to pro...”

“Some experiences are universal. A girl is a girl whether she lives in West Omaha or Sweet Valley. Books are often far more than books.”

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books”