“Love, deep and pure, it opens my heart. It feels like a magical force, one Id fight to protect, one Id die to keep.”

“Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew.”

“Tears ache in my throat and each time his lips caress mine Im closer to the dam within me bursting open. Hes undoing me, tearing out my demons with burning strokes of his lips and the salty taste o...”

“I know how it fees to plead. I know how it feels to wish someone would give you a chance to help them.”

“Right now in this space, I feel a brand new pull to him. Ive always been drawn to his features, his brilliance, his laughter, his passion. But right now Im attracted to his pain. It makes him human...”

“Not the way he looks, but specifically the way he looks at me threatens my inhibitions. Its all greedy yearning.”

“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”

“my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.”

“Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.”

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”